Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over Judiciary was again asserted when Governor Murphy ordered Sheriff Wolcott to ignore Judge Gadola's writ. At week's end William Green wired to Governor Murphy that the executive council of the American Federation of Labor had adopted a ''hands off policy" which in effect endorsed Insurgent Lewis' strike, although the Federation promised jealously to protect the rights of G. M.'s craft unionists. Having digested that message, the conferees met at Governor Murphy's call for their eleventh session. That night G. M.'s Donaldson Brown, emphasizing that...
Inspecting Washington's District Jail,; golfing District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen spied his Negro caddy in jail for disorderly conduct, obligingly paid the $3 fine necessary to effect his release...
Actually, this grand effect derives from the dynamic possibilities of the material, which the producers of the film had the good sense to handle truthfully and artlessly. Asia, if not the darkest of the continents, is the greatest and the richest in mysterious meaning. These Frenchmen, traveling from Beirut to Pekin approximately along the route of Marco Polo, proceeds in business-like fashion, using powerful trucks with caterpillar treads in the rear, and yet they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen...
...President's mind is his assumption that a body of fifteen can work as efficiently as a group of nine. Since the court cannot be split into two sessions,--else there would be no supreme court at all,--fifteen judges will have to sit at once, in effect making a minor deliberative body like a third branch of Congress, rather than a court of law. Thus, unless the present executive heat persuades the present elder justices that it's time to retire, the speed at which the court can perform will be retarded rather than advanced...
...dark winter of 1932 "Uncle Dan" Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and eight other railroad presidents met 21 representatives of railroad labor in the Palmer House at Chicago. The U. S. railroads, said "Uncle Dan" in effect, were just about broke. Maintenance and fixed charges had been cut to the bone. Would the 1.000,000 U. S. railway employes take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally...