Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spiritual leader, Pius XI sought to influence the private lives of Catholic U. S. citizens as to marriage, morals, women's dress, co-education (he was against it), sex education, birth control. On the U. S. as a whole his efforts cannot be said to have had marked effect, unless they retarded inevitable progress toward more latitude in all these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control...
...talk. In an "off-the-record" lecture to nine French political reporters, some well-known in Paris as tipsters for foreign embassies, the Foreign Minister censured the French press for its treatment of the "Italian question," warned that it would bring Italian bombs "on our heads" and declared, in effect, that there was much to be said for the Italian claims to Tunisia, Corsica, Djibouti, the Suez Canal...
...Rome last week. He was William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. Twice Cardinal O'Connell has missed a papal election by not getting to Rome soon enough. The second time, in 1922, he missed it by no more than an hour, expostulated to such effect that one of Pius XI's first acts was to extend the minimum period between the Pope's death and the opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau, might miss his third conclave...
...this strange new symposium, an encouraging 13 to 14 of every 100 listeners stay tuned in Sunday nights. But the rigors of getting the script in shape and the renewed clamor that radio work takes some of the twinkle out of cinema stars have had an effect on the players themselves. Last week, with Lombard, Grant and Tibbett scheduled to be off, Ronald Colman asked for. and got, release from his contract. This left last Sunday's show in a bad spot. Grant was lured back, Basil Rathbone rounded up. The show went on, distinguished mainly by the singing...
...Soft music has a definite anesthetic effect, dulls mild sensations of pain. Dr. Podolsky claims that doctors can conquer more severe pain by playing "music in a fast aggressive tempo," such as The Toreador's Song from Carmen, Anchors Aweigh!, The Stars and Stripes Forever...