Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Albert Filene, 77, millionaire Boston merchant and amateur economist; of lobar pneumonia; in Paris, France. From a small beginning, Merchant Filene built his ready-to-wear specialty shop, William Filene's Sons Co., into a potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into effect by organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management of his store...
...gentle old voice Secretary of State Cordell Hull reiterated his best-known belief, that the world's woes will remain until tariff barriers are reduced. He reinforced it with up-to-date facts: "In 1936 our export trade with 14 countries, with which trade agreements were in effect all or part of that year, increased by 18.2% over 1935, while our trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe is inevitable within...
This admirable idea should have been put into effect several years ago, as it has long been a standing disgrace that Harvard University should have been so far behind the times on the issue of Social Security. There is little excuse for an institution as well endowed as Harvard is, comparatively speaking, to have neglected to make suitable provision for its aged and faithful employees. If the University is to continue to call itself a progressive institutions, and pride itself upon holding a place of leadership in the United States, it ought to think of such things sooner...
After 23 days at sea, during which time they had been ashore only at the Hawaiian islands, the search was abandoned. It was abandoned partly because the order came to that effect and partly because, according to Chase, "the sailors wanted very much to go ashore...
...that parade and demonstration, according to the "Herald-Tribune" dispatch was an ambulance with the inscription on its side to the effect that it had been donated by the faculty, employees and students of Harvard University...