Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really knew last week what the effect of the new rates will be. In general, the railroads welcomed the reduction. Only the New York, New Haven & Hartford, Pennsylvania and New York Central actively opposed it. Greyhound Corp. stock dropped six points. Almost everywhere present bus rates will still be lower than the new rail rates...
...Martha Graham is intent on typifying the U. S. spirit, she is more consistently abstract. Her face is like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse to the floor implies grief or destruction. In Horizons, her latest creation, her girls have a passage where they place their hands behind their necks, rotate their heads from side to side. They are supposed...
...trust ($103,929,000) and the most successful (asset value of its common stock has tripled since 1929). President Floyd Bostwick Odium entered Depression loaded with cash, kept liquid until bargains were plentiful, then bought other trusts by the dozen at heavy discounts from their asset value. Thus, in effect, he bought securities not at Depression lows but far below. Last year he cashed in on his paper profits to the extent of $11,000,000. Common stock dividends were initiated last September with a 30? payment, boosted fortnight...
...before you: should a President thus avowedly upholding the principles of class hatred, violence, murder, dictatorship, tyranny, and unconstitutionality remain in office at Harvard? If you answer yes, you also are an unAmerican traitor, the only difference between you and a convicted criminal being that there is now in effect a law against the latter, whereas the law against you and your sort has not yet been passed...
...offer to re-enter the League of Nations, while on the surface seeming like an about-face and an admission of defeat, will in effect also create a highly dangerous situation. Germany must not be allowed to rejoin the League. Her only excuse for doing so has been frankly stated:-she wants to reopen the question of colonies, and discard the Versailles treaty in its entirely. Neither of these moves can possibly be countered at the present moment and as one correspondent stated in a despatch, her re-entrance would have the effect of admitting a wolf into a pack...