Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive an honorary degree from Princeton University where 16 years ago, as a graduate student from Louvain, he studied economics. Certainly he had not come to the U. S. to negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty, for that was all signed, sealed and put into effect two years ago. Still he found enough to talk about with the President under the awning on the deck of the Potomac (except for a brief interval while he and Mme van Zeeland went ashore for a Mount Vernon wreath-laying) to talk all day. enough to keep him up to the small hours...
...arrived at an oral agreement with the C.I.O. regarding wages, hours and other conditions of employment, but decline to put that agreement in writing. That is not true. No such agreement, oral or otherwise, has been reached. That does not mean, however, that the terms of employment now in effect with our employes are indefinite or uncertain or subject to unreasonable or arbitrary changes. They have been reduced to writing in form of notices which have been posted in all plants to which they apply or otherwise announced in writing to all our employes...
...Last year it capped its historic record of operations in the red with an all-time high deficit of around $1,000,000. What finally precipitated the obsequies, outsiders were not told, but shutting off this one big drain on Hearst resources could have only a beneficial effect upon the market for securities which Mr. Hearst was planning to sell. Delayed in passage for weeks by successive amendments had been his registrations with the Securities & Exchange Commission of $35,500,000 of debentures- $22,500,000 for Hearst Publications, Inc., $13,000,000 for Hearst Magazines, Inc. (TIME, April...
...such record. With bone-dry formality it stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around to Chairman Eccles' side when reserves were hiked a second time last January (TIME...
...derided by Sportswriter John R. Tunis, writing on Honoris Causa in the June Harper's. Sneered Mr. Tunis: "Degrees are awarded with a canny eye for prestige, publicity, and good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class at Mammoth if they fully understood the significance of the Commencement scene this month, as they watch their alma mater shoveling out honorary degrees to the face-cards of business and professional life...