Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event that a dignitary doesn't merit such an enormous blast as given by a 21-gun salute all that has to be done is to lower the volume on the amplifier and this will give the effect of fewer guns...
...will do this, Mr. President, explicitly, generously, candidly; make no effort to keep Congress in session longer than is absolutely necessary, and reduce your blacklist to real, intentional enemies of the common welfare, you will be astounded to witness the curative effect of this single thing...
Three days after the President had exhibited his sheath-knife, the House of Representatives voted 204-to-196 to kill his Plan to reorganize the executive branch of the Federal Government. Upon Franklin Roosevelt, the net effect was comparable to that of having his own party toss a yataghan 15 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue and put it squarely in between his shoulder blades. Reason: unlike the battle over the Supreme Court plan, the battle over the Reorganization Bill involved no major issue except whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt was still the master of his party. Until the final votes were counted...
Unfortunately for the effect of Governor Leche's soothing words, last speaker on the card was Secretary Wallace. His theme: Pan-Americanism is the best safeguard against dictatorships and "we now know there are nations which despise Democracy and which look with longing eyes toward this hemisphere." His blunt conclusion: "This challenge from the dictatorships of Europe caught us unawares. We lost for a time our common purpose, but now it has been restored. Europe, we thank...
...Monday, the 7th day of last March, I met Mr. Richard Whitney for the first time. He then told me in effect that certain of his actions had been wrong . . . that he felt that a public confession was due from him. . . . He added that he was determined to meet the consequences. In 36 years of experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental...