Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least by an interruption from New York's Caroline O'Day, who pointed out that her good friend Frances Perkins was born near Boston, Mr. Hoffman suggested that it would be well if Madam Perkins "kept her mouth shut." He purported to quote President Roosevelt to the effect that if Communism broke out in the U. S., it would first reveal itself in Detroit, announced that the Russians had already renamed Detroit in honor of John L. Lewis-presumably Lewisgrad...
...effect of the Scopes trial was to instill a burning determination to combat ignorance and bigotry in a wispy, grey, mild-mannered man named Ludwig Erwin Katterfeld. Born 56 years ago in Strasbourg, which was then German, Ludwig Katterfeld arrived in the U. S., worked on a Nebraska farm, graduated from a college in Kansas where he majored in sociology. He got interested in labor problems, joined the Socialist party, rose to a position of some influence, acted as a circulation executive for several left-wing publications. Meanwhile he made a living as a salesman. Now his crusade for scientific...
Whatever the psychological effect of the New Deal's borrowing and spending may have been, the New Deal's easy money policy has certainly given the Installment Plan a big push. With a plethora of bank credit available, the big finance companies have been able to cut carrying charges to more attractive levels. Many commercial banks are now interested in installment paper not only indirectly through loans to merchants and finance companies but also directly in their own installment departments...
...intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry or passion can tempt will ever equal that to the commission of which he has devoted the last four years of his life. Unless his first appearance in the college is marked by a frank and hearty...
...that they alone are free, but do not be misled by such self-deluding propaganda. Moving from left to right or vice versa provides no solution for an individual; the scenery of each world is illumined by a different portion of the spectrum, to be sure, but the hypnotic effect of the dazzling glare is the same for red light as for blue...