Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rates now in effect are for the calendar years 1937, 1938, and 1939. The 1½% rate is not effective until January 1, 1940. Had this article appeared in a later issue it might have been construed correctly...
...effect of this bracketing of shots was to make Congress responsible not only for national defense and for Relief in its name, but for the welfare of reliefers after mid-February, when present appropriations will be gone, with about five winter weeks still to come...
This turnabout in the President's philosophy was crystallized in the new budget in a proposed method of bookkeeping. Government expenditures have for several years been in effect divided into two types -ordinary (Government operating expenses, national defense, interest on public debt, etc.) and extraordinary (relief, highways, Civilian Conservation Corps, flood control, public buildings, etc.). The former he would have remain fairly constant from year to year; but extraordinary expenses would chart (in reverse) the country's ups and downs, and he suggested that these expenses be treated as national investments...
...Long Island, about 70 miles from Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park. *In Miami last week, Columnist Walter Winchell quoted vacationing Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy to the effect that Charles Lindbergh passed on his gleanings to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the instance of Mr. Kennedy; not, as previously reported, through or at the request of Nancy Astor's "Cliveden...
...many a U. S. psychologist the letters "ESP" have the effect of a red rag on a bull. "ESP" means extrasensory perception, i.e., telepathy and clairvoyance. Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University believes that his card-guessing experiments (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934) prove the existence of ESP. The various criticisms aimed at him boil down to the charge that he has not maintained the rigorous objectivity and experimental control demanded of serious research...