Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Hideki Tojo had plans for a Russian Pearl Harbor, the warning was drowned in the clatter of his windy generalities. Never had a Diet session commanded the airtime that Radio Tokyo devoted to this one. Yet never had there seemed less reason for calling the mummers to enact their pantomime. Said Tojo...
...simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government grants to states and communities, both...
Benes or Bedlam. Last week, in Collier's, the Polish Premier turned on Russia with a proposal to enact a federation of small states from the Baltic to the Black Sea, a bloc which would wall off the Soviet Union within its prewar boundaries...
...78th Congress had yet to enact an important law-yet by last week it had reversed the whole legislative trend of the last ten years. For a decade Congress, at the Administration's prodding, has hounded economic royalists, corporations, public utilities. Now the 78th, turning squarely around, was hounding the Administration...
...William Prince), a farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...