Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought the Hope-Aiken Act and its sliding scale of price props were just right. The Middle Western farmers thought so too, helped Kline defeat the Southern proposal and got the federation to go on record in favor of the Hope-Aiken Act. But it also urged Congress to enact a permanent law making any agricultural commodity eligible for price support. No one suggested that the farmers prove they were the free enterprisers they fancied themselves by eventually doing away with all price supports, any more than other businessmen would do away with tariffs...
...Civil Rights Committee flatly recommended outlawing the anti-Negro practices of the South. Such fiery Southerners as Fielding Lewis Wright, governor of Mississippi, forthwith raised the cry of secession-from the Democratic Party, not the nation. When President Truman urged Congress to enact his committee's recommendations into law, the outcry could be heard from Charleston to Little Rock...
...killed (TIME, Jan. 12). This was a subject for a first-rate movie. Canon City is not that good, but it is exciting, intelligent and unpretentious. It begins as a straight documentary, presented with gratifying simplicity and quietness, then gently eases in among the professional players, who re-enact the break and the man hunt...
Whose Oligarchy? The issue this time was the Labor government's Parliament Bill, already twice approved by the House of Commons. The bill would reduce the time needed for the House of Commons to enact legislation over the Lords' disapproval, from two years to nine months...
Theater Workshoppers will carry "Henry IV" to the Boston air waves this evening in the first roel of a three-night radio adaptation. The same cast which staged the play last fall will enact a shortened Act I and Act II over WHDH tonight at 9:35 o'clock. The remaining acts are scheduled for Thursday and Friday evenings...