Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert L&233;vitt resigned from the Department of Justice in August, perhaps for the last time. But he had yet another sting for Homer Cummings and the New Deal. Eight days after his resignation took effect, Lawyer L&233;vitt had popped up with a petition demanding that Nominee Hugo Black prove his eligibility to sit on the Supreme Court. Mr. L&233;vitt contended that Senator Black, by voting for the Supreme Court Retirement Act, had helped increase the emoluments of that office contrary to Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution...
...undergraduate discussions, held until now when the spirit moved three or four on the same occasion. With the presentation of Christian ideas as an introduction to a systematically governed debate on religious problems, personal and universal, undergraduates are now given an unpreccedented chance to let off steam to some effect. Insted of consistently avoiding these questions, Harvardmen may, if they will, take a vital interest in trying to understand and evaluate the faith of their fathers. As an instrument reminding students that there is a spiritual side of life, the new series of lectures has already made great strides...
Agreeing with Holcombe on the speech in general but disagreeing with him as to what effect it may have on the neutrality legislation, Payson S. Wild, acting master of Winthrop House, called it "all right as far as it goes...
...think it is a trial balloon," Wild said, "to see how much effect the horrors of the Japanese situation have had upon the American public." He did not believe that the situation would lead to a modification of the Neutrality Bill, however, as "the President has tried in vain three times before to get a flexible bill through the Congress...
Professor Copeland concluded: "The continued deficit of the Federal Government . . . tends to have a two-barreled effect in shooting up the prices of commodities. First, the bonds serve to expand credit and to increase the amount of paper money in circulation. Secondly, the need for financing the deficit calls for easy money and the avoidance of those checks on credit expansion which might prevent an abnormal rise in commodity prices. . . . If past experience in this country and abroad were still of any significance, and if our affairs were not in the hands of a genius of unparalleled resourcefulness, I should...