Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether Harvard is due to win a number of major football victories this year or not, and the wise money is concentrating in the gambling circles to the effect that Harvard can't help winning a few, it is certain that long-range prospects aren't so good judging from the most recent edition of the Freshman teams...
Only immediate effect of this announcement was to make Japanese diplomats slightly uncomfortable; only certain practical result, to give assurance that the U. S. would sit in with other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty when they confer, probably within two weeks, on what to do about Japan. On the morning that the President reached Washington, after two days at Hyde Park, he called in Secretary Hull, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis -who may well be the U. S. Conference delegate-and Sumner Welles...
...determine whether A. F. of L. craft unionism or C. I. O. industrial unionism shall survive. In the General Steel Casting case, the Board last week ordered an election by crafts, an A. F. of L. victory. In several other cases the Board has ordered plantwide elections, which, in effect, deprive the craft unionists of their right to select their own bargaining representatives. And A. F. of L. would like to see the Wagner Act amended to read like the Railway Labor Act, which provides for bargaining by craft or class of employes...
...even the President's candid show of partiality for China budged the Committee from its two nots, but after scanning Mr. Roosevelt's words it inserted in the motion it was drafting that "League members should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider how far they can individually extend aid to China." As taken by Latvia's Munters before the League Assembly and promptly voted by 50 unanimous ballots, with Poland and Siam abstaining, the motion directs League member States...
...unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart from Win, er Take Nothing (1933), a volume of short stories, the eight succeeding years saw only two books, both failures. To most...