Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intention of cutting salaries from 5%, to 25% on all jobs paying over $3,000. Other companies made similar cuts or prepared to do so, for policyholders would surely be wroth if denied loan & cash surrender privileges while high salaries were being paid. Until 1933 Depression did not greatly affect life insurance salaries, as is evident from the amounts paid their presidents in 1929 and 1932 by leading life insurance companies...
...Thompson won, Attorney Baker lost. Federal Judge Luther Way decided that the Appalachian project came under F. P. C. jurisdiction because the New River, though not navigable itself, flows into the navigable Kanawha which in turn flows into the navigable Ohio. A power dam on the New River could affect downstream navigability and hence interstate commerce. The effect of the decision was to compel Appalachian to accept F. P. C.'s authority in the form of a standard license instead of getting a "minor part" license which involves no Government regulation, no recapture. If sustained by higher courts...
There will be a playoff between Dunster and Eliot for the D league title this afternoon, but since the D league scores do not count in the contest for the Prentice Cup, the playoff will not affect the above results...
Pointing out that mail order prices affect less than 3% of the replacement market, Vice President Robert Smith Wilson of Goodyear growled: "That the remaining 97% of the tire market should be disrupted under such reasoning is a matter to be greatly deplored." President James Dinsmore Tew of Goodrich argued: "In our opinion present economic conditions do not justify any reduction . . . and we cannot believe that any benefit to employes, security holders or the general public will result...
...London told of the situation in pre-Revolutionary Russia and described the tactics of Kerensky who was his friend and intimate. These caught the eye of Lloyd George, then Prime Minister. Although appalled with the youth of Lockhart, the head of the British government decided to send him to affect a contact with Lenin and Trotsky in non-official capacity. One also finds a pleasing irony in the pictures of God-fearing Arthur Henderson, Lord Robert Cecil thinking that Trotsky was a German officer in disguise, and a dozen others...