Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Labor Committee but kept off the floor by a clique of Southern members of the Rules Committee. As chairman of Labor's Non-Partisan League, John L. Lewis of C. I. O. denounced the House Committee Wages & Hours tie-up, threatened to form a new party to effect social legislation if the Democratic Party failed to do so. William Green of A. F. of L., no real enthusiast for the bill, also made some deprecating remarks...
This week in California a unique law takes effect which amends this state of affairs, permits either side to a trial in a superior or municipal court to object in writing to the judge assigned to try the case. No reason need be given. Automatically the case must be assigned to some other judge. However, only one such peremptory challenge may be filed by each side...
Last week at the foot of barrier No. 5, the House Rules Committee, Wages & Hours lay as dead as a roast chicken. One of the most potent of Congressional Committees. Rules must say, in effect, "Pass on," before any bill can reach the floor of the House. If Rules refuses a rule, proponents of the bill can bring it to the floor by discharging the Committee through petition of half the membership, but only after an interval of 30 days. By its refusal to give Wages & Hours a rule last week the Committee had effectively bottled up the bill until...
...July last year the League of Nations had received six unwelcome letters from six Latin American countries-Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras-announcing their withdrawal from the League. Since withdrawal is provided for in the League's Covenant it must be accepted, and automatically takes effect two years after notice has been given...
...thoroughly commonplace star, is only eight light-minutes from earth, a fact which sufficiently explains its unique importance to mankind. Yet observation of the sun like that of other celestial bodies is impeded by the distorting effect of earth's atmosphere. An observer at an altitude of 25,000 ft., however, has two-thirds of the effective atmosphere beneath him. To that altitude a Pan-American Grace Airliner mounted over Peru during the total eclipse of last June (TIME, June 14) and from it Major Albert W. Stevens, stratosphere balloonist, made unusual photographs of the eclipsed sun which...