Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the CRIMSON acted to check its legal grounds when it appeared that the migration from New York might be considered a violation of the Mann Act. The Editors wired Attorney General J. Howard McGrath...
...Bossy, reported Bossy in big newspaper ads in the Newburyport News, could act dignified and nice-like whenever the occasion demanded. His campaign for mayor, masterminded by his clever, forceful wife, was a model of restraint. Bossy limited himself to a few dainty attacks on Incumbent John M. Kelleher's spending policies. Last week when the townspeople voted, chunky Andrew Jackson Gillis, onetime sailor and roustabout, was elected mayor by 288 votes...
Elated over his comeback, Bossy immediately began planning some gentle, dignified changes. "I'm gonna bring some of the old zang back to Newburyport," he promised. "My first act will be to tear the police department apart and then fire the fire chief. I'm gonna give the highway department quite a shellacking and there are gonna be some new faces around city hall...
...again last week, Migon convinced even Warden Chester Fordney, who had been sure the Herald-American's picture was a retoucher's phony. The Hearst paper explained that taking the picture had not been merely a ghoulish, sensational trick. It had actually, it said piously, been an act of purest public service. Migon's exploit, cried the Herald-American, proved that the jail's detection system "is NOT fool proof." If "guns and saws COULD BE SMUGGLED" into jail the same way, there might be "A WHOLESALE BREAK BY PRISONERS...
...United States and other minority voters don't think the UN can really act on its vote. They pointed out that failure to implement the decision could be disastrous to the UN, and that at present this failure seems most likely. The UN has no army because member nations can't agree on which country should give what, and how forces should be used--they are worried about losing "sovereignty." And, of course, there is the matter of financing a program that could run way over the budget allotment. Thus, opponents state, the UN should have established the army first...