Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart, aggressive General Arnold foresees that with the Air Corps about to be trebled in size and importance, the Army, to get full value from its airmen in the next war, may in effect have to rebuild itself around its air service. Deliberate, thoughtful General Craig gravely doubts that the U. S. Army needs an Air Corps of Roosevelt dimensions. Furthermore, he believes that whatever its size the Air Corps should continue to be a subordinate arm, supplementing the all-important Infantry...
...Whatever effect this had on the honest membership, it achieved a Labor paradox. A so-called C. I. O. audience booed & hissed every mention of the name of John Lewis...
...questioners Pat Harrison specified a 10% overall slash in this year's Federal expenses. Knowing well that fixed charges of some $2,300,000,000 (for debt interest, Social Security, tax refunds, revolving funds and the like) could not be touched to effect such a saving, Pat Harrison snorted: "I know that a lot of this emergency stuff could be cut to hell...
...poor, at Cliveden. . . . According to English notions all Americans are insanely hospitable. But Lady Astor is phenomenal even among American hostesses. ... I could prove that Cliveden is a nest of Bolshevism. . . . The Astors have become the representatives of America in England; and any attack on them is in effect an attack on America. . . . Never has a more senseless fable got into the headlines...
...party split in House and Senate makes the issue one of the most important facing Congress with New Deal forces concentrating on the continuation of the relief program while a militant Republican minority allied with the Anti New Deal Democrats demands a reduced budget regardless is its effect on the delicately balanced relief structure...