Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported that a Liberal Member of the English Parliament will suggest to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin next week the plan of placing British naval bases at the disposal of American warships; a proposal which, if carried out, will deeply affect the present position of the United States at the Naval Conference. The American fleet, especially in the Pacific, has to contend with the important problem of few bases at great distances from one another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing...
...organization long a credit to the College and standards of serious drama. It is believed that the reorganization now taking place will remove a respected institution from the realms of official disfavour, and it is to be hoped that the exposure of a black eye already cured will not affect the prestige of the Club among its followers...
...discussed on the floor of the Senate or the House, might have a very adverse effect on the Government's credit. . . . Senator: Do I understand you to say that your answer to my question would be such that if it were made public it would adversely affect and seriously injure the Government's credit? Secretary: What I am trying to say is it might be misinterpreted. . . . Senator: On that basis no statement could ever be made because all statements are liable to misinterpretation. . . . Senator Couzens put an end to the argument by announcing that he regarded him self...
...Morgenthau tried to explain about the Government's credit: "The thing I am trying to say is this: Since Monday a week ago I do not think anybody in the United States can say what the picture is going to be. So many things have happened that affect the Treasury that I certainly am not smart enough, and I haven't met anybody that is smart enough, who can say what is the future of the Government bond market. Now this whole question of Government credit is such a delicate thing. One day there is confidence...
...Government the safest investment that can be made. . . . They are more certain than any other bond to be paid in full at maturity. They have a past record of greater salability in times of emergency than any other security. ... A marked strengthening of money rates might tend to affect unfavorably the market price of securities of all kinds, but I anticipate no great trend in this direction in the near future...