Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finding no intoxicant gases in the sugar factory, doctors concluded that the monotonous machines had driven the young women into a mass hysteria, the psychic phenomenon used with striking effect by Charlie Chaplin in his last picture, Modern Times...
Last week, the course had achieved its effect by the time the last round started. Gene Sarazen had offered to bet $500 that no one would break 288 (even fours and par). Snead had predicted that he would beat 292 and finish at least second...
Chancellor-Emeritus Kirkland, the Board of Trust announced, would leave Vanderbilt in the capable hands of Graduate Dean Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, who was brought to Vanderbilt two years ago from the presidency of Alabama College to effect Chancellor Kirkland's plans for whittling Vanderbilt's four-year course into two divisions (TIME, May 27, 1935). Chancellor-Elect Carmichael was Alabama's sixth Rhodes Scholar (1917). After the War, when he served as a relief worker and was arrested as a spy in Belgium, India, and once in Childersburg, Ala., he settled down to teach French in Alabama...
According to dour executive vice president Jonathan Eddy, the organization's professional, permanent chief who is satirically known to the membership as "the laughing boy from Connecticut," 47 Guile wage and working condition agreements are now in effect, where only seven flourished a year ago. The 47 current agreements cover 78 newspapers (many of them chainpapers). Membership in the twelve-month had increased from 5,716 to 11,112. The treasury had $231 on hand last year, $10,049 this year. A $20,000 war chest is to be collected. In one important aspect, however, the Guild remained unchanged...
...manager, fortnight ago: "With a growing segment of the buying public mortgaging its future income in installment obligations which will in all likelihood amount to close to 10% of our national income this year, it must be anticipated that the resulting installment debt is certain to have a retarding effect on the future purchasing power of these consumers.* The situation calls for a new orientation in credit thinking...