Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the findings of the court, amendments which involve a transfer of power from the individual states to the United States cannot be ratified constitutionally by the same methods as those which affect merely a change in the machinery of government. Of this kind are the twelfth and the seventeenth, which vary the procedure in the election of the President or the Sehators, or those which limit powers of the state or federal governments. The constitution specifically provides for amendments of this nature, the shifting of power, and states that the proposed laws must be ratified by constitutional conventions...
...want the coach to relinquish his control. A coach is necessary to make substitutions in football and direct the team insofar as he is allowed under the present rules. These are functions which can not be carried out efficiently by the captain, whose worries are great enough now to affect his playing ability. Certainly no one wants a coach who moves his men about like pawns on a chess board even if the rules allowed such manipulations. His position is on the sidelines during a game and his presence there can hardly be said to have an unwholesome influence...
Promulgated by the Cabinet in the form of a decree which luckless little King Vittorio Emanuele must sign, these wage cuts will, it was estimated last week, affect 60% of the wage-earning population of Italy, including street-sweepers, bus-drivers, streetcar-conductors, postmen & postmistresses, policemen, workers on the State Railways, employes of the State Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy...
Great object of the agreement is that not more than one ship of the combine shall sail from a given port on a given day. This will affect hordes of longshoremen, freight handlers, railwaymen, harbor workers...
...will meet weekly in the small common room of the House on Tuesday evenings, when individual members will talk on topics of general interest and importance. A discussion will follow the talks, in which all members will participate. The first meeting will be featured by a discussion of the affect of industrial society on individual character. The second meeting, which will take place on Tuesday, December 2, will offer a discussion of present unemployment...