Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising Mr. Lubin's estimate of national income "lost" in Depression to 293 billions, reminding everyone that while 10,569,000 U. S. workers were jobless last October, about 6,800,000 of them would have been jobless even if the industrial system...
Meanwhile the Italian press in effect screamed "TUN-E-E-E-SIA!" with one regimented voice; and owners of French newspapers each screamed his individualistic brand of outrage...
...rest of France, the strike took more effect. Although the industrial regions in the north were also patrolled by troops, metal and mine workers in many plants "folded arms" and in seaports like Marseille and Le Havre dock workers struck 100% strong...
...Eastern Europe, 45 small Hungarian papers were suppressed within the last month, and new laws limited the number of Jews in newspaper jobs. Similar laws are in effect in what is left of Czechoslovakia. In Bulgaria it was announced that no new newspaper can start without permission of a special new Ministry. Lithuania signed a press accord agreeing that the newspapers of each nation will henceforth be "devoid of unfriendly tendencies...
Four hundred men will gain a pleasanter, fuller, more truly "Harvard" education if this temporary measure is put into effect, as it can be with the cooperation of the Housemasters. And it should be remembered, in consideration this and any other problem involving them, that the Houses are the instruments and not the rulers of University policy...