Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Herschel Baker has told his class in modern drama that he can never again speak on "Saint Joan" without recalling the Workshop's production of the play. It has had a memorable effect on all who saw it. Presented in Sanders, a theater which offers some of the most unreasonable handicaps ever placed on a college group (no proscenium, no sconery allowed, no backstage, no dressing rooms, no curtains, etc.), the VTW production made inspirational use of its handicaps. Aside from the excellent cast now working "ensemble," the real coup do theatre was made by the designer, John Holabird...
...effect the proposal would change the Faculty's power from that of not considering applications of undergraduates for co-ed membership or officership, to vote power; while it would give the Councils, which at present have no say in the matter, equivalent power...
...order had a drastic effect on war news in Shanghai's 25 Chinese and four English-language newspapers. Before the order, the newspapers had carried such headlines as: KASHING CAPTURED BY RED TROOPS ; COMMUNISTS RACING SOUTH, EAST TO ISOLATE SHANGHAI AREA. Post-Censorship headlines: HASHING STILL IN GOVERNMENT HANDS; SHANGHAI AREA GUARDED BY CRACK GOVERNMENT TROOPS...
Though Young's Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has owned 6% of Central stock for two years-in effect, a slim working control-the Interstate Commerce Commission has refused to let him exercise control, or sit on the Central's board, because it is illegal for the same man to control two competing railroads. Young might get around this by transferring C. & O.'s holdings in the Central to Alleghany Corp., putting Alleghany's C. & 0. voting power in trust to an outsider, and resigning his board chairmanship of the C. & O. Thus, unless the ICC found some...
...best hopes for a new labor bill now rest with the Congressional committees which must frame new bills: The Democratic majorities have one more chance to compromise intelligently. If the Taft-Hartley Law remains in effect, many small inequities will continue--not to mention big ones like the closed shop ban. The National Labor Relations Board will have to continue operating under a law parts of which both labor and management have attacked violently; it will be forced to go on throwing out the cases of unions whose officers object to non-communist affidavits or the required finance reports...