Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan is devised so as to "cushion" the effect of war on the markets and prevent a financial panic such as wiped out the savings of thousands of Americans when the World War broke...
Immediate effect of this historic Roosevelt document was to cut the ground from under all previous thinking and talking about his foreign policy (see p. 13). It clarified once & for all the fact that Franklin Roosevelt positively expected war abroad unless some one's will-to-peace, as well as "the arms of the Democracies, was stronger than the Dictators' will-to-war. It tended to absolve Franklin Roosevelt from previous charges of "war-mongering." Whether or not his invitation was accepted-and his ten-year clause made acceptance look impossible-it kept open the way to some...
...What the effect would be on the U. S. people and on Franklin Roosevelt's position as their leader, remained to be determined. As day followed day and no reply came from the Dictators (see p. 19), rejection by them, perhaps an insulting rebuff to Franklin Roosevelt, seemed certain. In that event, public opinion in the U. S. would form in one of two ways: behind him more strongly than ever as a champion who, having done his best for peace, must now do his best for the Democracies; or against him more strongly than ever as an international...
...Fanny Perkins was glad to be rid of Joe Strecker, she was sorely disappointed by the decision's effect on the even more troublesome case of C. I. O.'s Australian-born Harry Bridges. For the Court, in ruling out past membership in subversive organizations as a cause for ejecting aliens, definitely ruled in membership 1) at the time an alien enters the U. S., or 2) at the time deportation proceedings are begun. Thus the decision which was supposed to settle Alien Bridges' status increased the pressure on Secretary Perkins to seize him, convict...
Russell was inclined to doubt the effect of Italy in any future war. "Mussolini," he said, "is a very shrewd fellow. He will certainly be on the winning side. I shall be very much disappointed if he comes in against...