Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the U.S., it is my duty to protest TIME'S July 5 account to the effect that arms and planes have been sent by the Dominican government to Central America...
...fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans gave the effect of a wheatfield in a freakish wind, across which photographers' bulbs flashed like heat lightning (see PRESS). Then a grim-faced Negro loomed on the platform...
...Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
...really a pressing national emergency? Harry Truman said there was. But who was talking-the President or the politician? Harry Truman's call for a special session of Congress was made at a political convention; it would be judged largely on its political motives and for its political effect. Harry Truman, who, like all Presidents, occupies a dual position as head of the Government and leader of a political party, had used his powers as President to further his party's fortunes...
...they got to identical prices at any given destination. Last April, the Supreme Court upheld FTC's charge that such identical prices added up to trustlike collusion. The court ordered the defendants in the case, the cement industry, to drop the basing-point system. The order went into effect last week...