Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double quartet in "Jagdlied" made a surprise move by singing on the western pier of the steps apart from their fellows, who hissed disapproval. But Conductor Woodworth was so pleased by the effect that he is considering putting the double quartet across the quadrangle on the steps of Memorial Chapel in the second Yard concert next Tuesday...
...price men-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone -the Senate voted in March to put cash & carry trade in force automatically at the beginning of war abroad. The conference, ostensibly on the insistence of the House managers, arranged to let the President decide if & when the rule should take effect...
...many of them did. Last week, with General Franco pounding away at the gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could go out from Ireland. Correspondents with the Rightist armies had other explanations. Since his arrival in Spain, the advice of General Owen O'Duffy has never been asked by the high-powered German and Italian staff officers of Generalissimo Franco...
...better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores da Cunha might try with his 30,000 militiamen...
From Manhattan President Sloan issued GM's first quarter financial report showing the effect on earnings of the 42-day strike engineered by Homer Martin's U.A.W. Net profits for the first three months of 1937 were $44,814,000, a 15% decrease from the $52,464,000 earned during the same period last year. Net sales were substantially equaled: $336,850,000 in 1937 as compared with $341,306,000. At week's end, GM directors met in Manhattan, elected President Sloan their chairman, vice Lammot du Pont, retired. President Sloan's old job fell...