Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece of traditional British wisdom is that no new King is of much effect. The influence and value of an able King builds up gradually as he ripens on the Throne. Slowly, cumulatively, his prestige with subjects and statesmen rises, and he learns by experience where and upon whom judicious pressure by the King can make itself felt. On the Continent this is no less true than in England and Dutchmen, for example, consider themselves most fortunate to have so ripe a sovereign as Wilhelmina, whose wisdom and sagacity in her constitutional sphere are immense. Contrary to some mistaken impressions...
Secretary Morgenthau: What I might say, if it became public property or was discussed on the floor of the Senate or the House, might have a very adverse effect on the Government's credit. . . . Senator: Do I understand you to say that your answer to my question would be such that if it were made public it would adversely affect and seriously injure the Government's credit? Secretary: What I am trying to say is it might be misinterpreted. . . . Senator: On that basis no statement could ever be made because all statements are liable to misinterpretation. . . . Senator Couzens...
Still persisting in his erudite inquiry, Senator Bailey pressed a hypothetical question: "If in the next 17 months the Treasury undertakes to raise $11,000,000,000 by way of selling bonds or short-term notes, and you should fail to sell them . . . what would be the effect on the economic structure of the Government...
...Supreme Court had denied a last review of his conviction, and barely a day before he was scheduled to be electrocuted at the State Penitentiary in Trenton, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was last week granted a 30-day reprieve by New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman. In effect the stay given by the portly young Republican will postpone for at least two months the execution of the alien carpenter for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...effect these figures indicated that, for the U. S. at large, about twelve people out of every 1,000 are venereally infected-seven with syphilis, five with gonorrhea...