Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvardians in general may feel little direct effect from the present Sino-Jap war, but not so the Harvard Law Review, Law School legal publication, which travels all over the world. For an alarming number of Chinese subscriptions to the Review have been cancelled, according to Robert Amory Jr., 3L, treasurer of the magazine...
...unlikely, of course, that this idea could be put into effect immediately, but it might well serve its purpose in future years. Respectfully, Allan Kalumus...
...Commissar, big-nosed Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich was furiously turning the Soviet coal industry upside down last week. He fired both Ivan Fesenko and Zhuravlev, respectively the chief and assistant chief of the coal industry for "failing to clean up the last vestiges of sabotage by wreckers and thus, in effect, assisting the Trotskyist-Bukharinist wreckers in their contemptible work." According to Comrade Kaganovich, he will now reshuffle coal's whole personnel, consistently give better jobs to younger workers...
...labor groups when this seems desirable, called (2,815-to-2,178) for increased WPA appropriations to keep needy newspapermen employed, supported (2,685-to-2,271) President Roosevelt's plan for revising the Supreme Court. Only convention action rejected by the membership was a resolution to the effect "That Fascism must be defeated in Spain to halt the anti-labor forces...
...urge of a moral purpose as lofty as any that ever moved a penitent at a revival meeting. Now in Edge of Taos Desert Mabel Dodge reveals how, in 1917, at Taos, N. Mex., she was converted by a ''spiritual therapy" which wiped out the effect of 38 years of neurotic floundering, beginning as a poor little rich girl in Buffalo and Europe, continuing steadily as she became a collector of writers, artists, labor leaders and such, who flocked to her famed salons in Florence and New York, involving her in tormented marriages, love affairs, desperate experiments...