Word: effect
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...investigation of Forrestal's old Wall Street firm concerned a Senate committee hearing in 1933 on financial trading. Forrestal pointed out: "I stated that the applicable tax laws of the U.S. and Canada had led me to make" an investment in 1929 in a Canadian company. In effect, he had found a way to postpone tax payments. That same year (1929), said Forrestal, he had paid upwards of $300,000 in federal and New York State taxes. It was his behavior as a friendly witness in the Senate hearing which prompted Roosevelt to ask him to serve...
...proposed alliance would link the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg in a one-for-all, all-for-one defense against aggression, i.e., by the U.S.S.R. In effect, the U.S. and Canada were joining themselves to the others, who had already formed a Western Union under the Brussels Treaty (TIME, March 15 et seq.) and picked Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to mastermind their joint defenses. "The combined resources of the Brussels Pact nations cannot at this time provide enough military strength to assure effective resistance to aggression," the State Department said. "Because of its preponderant strength...
...tradition of some special celebration for mid-year graduates started during the war when a full-scale acceleration program was in effect. Thirty girls are expected to attend...
Under the present entrance system, which will remain in effect, only these men who are ready to enter medical school next fall will be referred to the draft board as eligible for draft deferment under Memorandum Seven...
...didn't see the Lunts do this play, and it's hard to say how much of the staging is theirs and how much director Harald Bromley added, but the effect is well-knit and unobtrusive. I suspect the Lunts' edge over the Sidney-Loder duo was in making every shot count; some humorously intended lines in the present rendition just can't lug their point across the footlights. But that still leaves enough laughs and satire and embarrassing encounters of the "Uh-oh, look who's here" type to amuse you for a couple of hours--so long...