Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desire to spite Il Duce, the statesmen at Nyon last fortnight and at Geneva last week, invited Italy to undertake an anti-pirate patrol only in the Tyrrhenian Sea immediately adjoining Italy, while Britain and France are to patrol the Mediterranean proper. This joker invitation said in effect: "As you are the Pirate, we intend to destroy your pirate ships everywhere except in your back yard, and we invite you to destroy them there!" This seemed in London and Paris to be just about diplomacy's best joke of the year, but in Rome it did not take Benito...
...principles advocated by the Secretary of State, the intellectual or sentimental adhesion of many to the said principles, their inclusion in many treaties between nations or in a document of greater scope aiming at defining the rules of life common to all States, will have, we believe, the effect of a certain moral pressure, but will produce rather limited practical action. We would be mistaken if we were to expect important results therefrom...
...compensation for his wrecked ship. The Embassy differed widely with Mattern on his methods of search, Arctic conditions and the value of his damaged plane, expressed sharp displeasure at his failure to find the Red flyers. To his request for reimbursement under the contract the reply was in effect, Zavtra (tomorrow). When the Soviet authorities have satisfied themselves that James Mattern: 1) did crash his Ford plane in Alaska, and 2) that it was in connection with his search for their lost fliers, compensation will be considered...
...punctured staff, got out the regular evening editions while as many as 250 pickets booed from the sidewalk. Ten were arrested for disorderly conduct. Printers pierced the picket line to prepare evening editions, reminded the Guild of the contract between the Eagle and the International Typographical Union, in effect until June 30, 1938. Failing to shut the plant, the Guild solicited funds by radio for its eleventh strike since it was founded in 1933, dug in for a long and bitter labor struggle...
Then President Roosevelt delivered his Constitution Day (see p. 9) speech demonstrating that Court Reform, with him at least, was by no means a dead issue. Down went the market again, obliterating its rally, plowing into new low ground for the year. Despite its market effect the President's speech did not alter the obvious political fact that the Administration has no more intention of letting a runaway bear market develop now than it had to see a bull market get out of hand last spring. At that time the Federal Reserve Board was bearing down on credit. Fortnight...