Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nash and Mayor Edward J. Kelly unreservedly called for and worked for the election of the entire Democratic ticket. The straight ticket was emphasized in every phase of the campaign. When inspired rumors of the type familiar in all election campaigns were spread, by the opposition, to the effect that Governor Horner would be slighted, Chairman Nash and Mayor Kelly took the unprecedented action of personally sending to each of the more than 3,500 county precinct workers a telegram reinforcing the party position of wholehearted support for every candidate on the ticket...
Sportswriters are accustomed to writing mysteriously about clever football players. Kelley's smartness is not mysterious at all. To effect his touchdown against Princeton last fortnight, instead of dodging Princeton's safety man, Jack White, Kelley bowled him over with a swinging straight-arm. Last week, Kelley explained this play. Knowing White was a faster runner than himself, Kelley had reasoned that, even if he dodged successfully, White would catch up with him. The only safe way was the way that looked most risky...
...hampered by a trivial thing like a plot, which after all, has no place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
...little late to talk any more about "le jour fatal" of November 3, but some time before President Roosevelt arrives in the Argentine he should know the effect his election has had on certain citadels of Americanism...
...notable paradox. For while speakers lambasted Oil's perennial incubus of Taxation with might & main, many an oilman was ready to concede that in one instance, at least, Taxation had done the oil business good. The wonder worker was a particularly painful chain store tax which went into effect in Iowa in June 1935. Upon oil companies owning retail outlets it piled a new levy graduated steeply upward both on gross receipts and number of outlets. By last week it was apparent that this last straw, far from breaking the camel's back, had set it going with...