Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few years I have worked many thousands of hours overtime under great tension and the strain has had its effect. I do not regret those hours, nor complain of them. . . . I was offered an opportunity to turn to writing as a profession. That made me realize my duty to my family and that for their sake I must try to better establish my financial position. . . . The welfare and the glory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will always be uppermost in my mind. . . . "Leon G. Turrou...
...foregoing facts were recited last week by the National Labor Relations Board as sufficient reason for requiring the associations to deal as a coast-wide unit with Mr. Bridges' union which won the support of 75% of West Coast longshoremen. Immediate effect was to strengthen Longshoreman Bridges, C. I. O. & Co. in their warming wrangle with Sailor Harry Lundeberg, A. F. of L. & Co. Furthermore, 900 A. F. of L. longshoremen in Tacoma and nearby Puget ports now must 1) go to court, 2) deal through Bridges, or 3) give up their jobs to Bridges...
While last week's German assurance in effect guaranteed Switzerland that no German troops would march through her territory in event of war, it did not preclude the possibility that Chancellor Hitler may one day gobble the nation whole. There are some 3,000,000 Germans, "racial comrades" of the Führer, within the nation's boundaries. Fully three-fourths of the population speak German. Reich Field Marshal Göring recently published in his National Zeitung a map of Greater Germany, prepared by Reich propagandists for school use, which pictured practically the whole of Switzerland...
...carrier currents of different electrical frequencies, tried it out with gratifying success. The currents are separated in pitch by 300 cycles. A generator adapted to Western Union's purposes costs about $1,000. By this technique the company sends telegrams from Manhattan to Chicago, Washington, Buffalo, Atlanta. Practical effect of the Hammond-type generator will be to reduce the number of wires necessary for intercity service, thus saving a sizable chunk of maintenance costs as the unnecessary wires are retired from service...
...person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station, and the Commission shall make rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: PROVIDED, that such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provisions of this section. No obligation is hereby imposed upon any licensee to allow the use of its station by any such candidate...