Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While your comments on Shirley Temple may perhaps be fair from your point of view, may I mention that if your almost savage criticisms should have any effect on her career, you would be robbing all the little girls of the one character they really can enjoy. There are pictures for adults and boys galore-but for little girls there are practically none, save Shirley Temple's and Walt Disney...
...went to 4% of all heirs. Taking this as premise No. 1, the President proposed as premise No. 2 that the concentration was due to monopolistic trends in U. S. business. His conclusion was that "a thorough study of the concentration of economic power in American industry and the effect of that concentration upon the decline of competition" should be undertaken by the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice and Securities & Exchange Commission, for whom he recommended appropriating $500,000. In addition, the President requested $200,000 more to enable the Department of Justice-whose Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold...
...Absolute secrecy was essential," Sir John said, "to prevent prices from being raised by knowledge [among food sellers] of the Government coming into the market. Had it been known, of course, the effect on prices would have been disadvantageous to consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...
...Myrdal, who is a member of the Swedish Royal Commission on Population, used Sweden as an example of a typical democratic country with a rapidly declining birth rate. "The impending social and economic results of a declining birth rate will have a great effect on industry, trade, and the labor problem besides the general culture of western Europe," he continued...
...novella," say Editors Burnett and Foley, is a story whose development requires more length and leisure than the short story, and yet "is in the nature of the short story in its unity of effect." Last week they demonstrated some of the possibilities of the form in a collection of five "novellas" chosen from Story magazine, which they edit. Although the book was launched to the accompaniment of resounding praise by short-story experts, any one of whose superlatives could qualify as the blurb of the week, readers less attentive to the nuances of the art might have difficulty...