Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfactory living on its own farm. But many thousands of tenant farmers-indeed most of them-with some financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them." Social Security. "In many nations where such laws are in effect success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through frequent amendment of the original statute." NRA- Halfway through his speech, President Roosevelt had drawn numerous brief bursts of applause, had stirred his audience to no excitement. Then he came to the point which he wished to drive home...
...long way off" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week the first U. S. wage earner to apply for a pension was one Ernest Ackerman, for 33 years a motorman for Cleveland Railway Co., who became 65 on Jan. 2. His wages for Jan. 1, day the pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total wages since the plan went into effect. This figures out as 17?, or a profit of 12?. Asking for it in a "lump sum," Motorman Ackerman announced...
...Radical Popular Front, which supports the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, launched daily rumors that German troops were arriving in Morocco at Ceuta, only 14 miles across the Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous Duke of Windsor's nervous intimate friend, British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper, who has said in a public address that he considers it his duty to "frighten people out of their wits" with the dangers of War (TIME, June 22), promptly bolted from London over...
...roses of Lippe-Biesterfeld, her train 18 feet long carried by four chil dren, and her sash of orange blossoms sent by loyal Dutchmen who grow oranges in Italy. The twelve bridesmaids were in six pairs, each pair dressed in a differing pastel color to produce a soft "rainbow effect" desired by the Crown Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later, when a diamond bracelet fell...
...Cabinet realizes that in deciding on a blockade it is giving Hitler and Mussolini an excuse for reprisals. ... If they seek to delay control, the British Navy will be given orders to act swiftly and effectively." Soon the British Empire proceeded to unleash the British Navy again-as it was unleashed last year against Benito Mussolini - this time perhaps to blockade Spain entirely by sea as suggested by the Sunday Referee. Since the House of Commons is about to reconvene this was a good line for His Majesty's Government to take, in preparation for expected criticism from Labor...