Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass a new one, anyone in the U. S. who sells arms, ammunition or implements of war to any foreign country must get a license from the State Department. Object of the law is to keep Secretary Hull informed of the operations of U. S. "Dealers of Death." Incidental effect of the law is to make Secretary Hull aware of the Buyers of Death. Last week he issued a summary of U. S. armament exports for January revealing the nations that spent $4,217,814 on Death, Made...
...week Aspirant Landon arrived at the same conclusion by a different route, let it be known around Topeka that, "perhaps I shall have to learn to adopt my christened name. ... If I stuck to 'Alf I am afraid some critics might think I was doing so for political effect...
...Businessman." One political effect of Republican enthusiasm over Governor Landon was to cast a shadow over another Midwesterner also entirely available for the Republican nomination. Still pursuing an unspectacular program, Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News was scurrying around through the midlands rallying small groups to his support. Concentrating last week on Ohio, he joyfully told diners at the 33rd annual McKinley Day banquet of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland that a "cataclysmic division" was rending the Democracy which "will be fatal to the Democratic success in November...
Though it denied these charges, Columbia last week signed a consent decree which left the Government with at least the appearance of triumph. In effect, Columbia agreed to get out of the Parish line by separating itself from Columbia Oil & Gasoline. The latter company will be reorganized as an independent concern, having no corporate connection with Columbia Gas & Electric. While this reorganization is in progress, the Parish line stock held by Columbia Oil & Gasoline will be put in the hands of a trustee, Gano Dunn, head of J. G. White Engineering Corp., onetime president of the American Institute of Electrical...
Onetime professor of English at Harvard, William Allan Neilson will announce his resignation as president of Smith College this spring--to take effect probably in June...