Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government already has passed a law compelling the Cape's colored voters to appear before an electoral officer, magistrate or police officer to prove that they can actually write their names and addresses. Since most colored citizens prefer to steer clear of race-baiting Nationalist police officials, the effect of the new law will be to disfranchise thousands...
...with racial prejudice, but before the next day is out it has ballooned into a shocking black & white scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders MPs to keep the Negroes out. Soon the U.S. press is ablaze with a garbled, press-service version of the story, while Washington, drawing back its skirts, coldly leaves Beale holding the bag. When the book ends, the storm has subsided...
...have followed in the same direction. Mr. Truman has pushed for a liberal displaced persons bill, for strong civil rights legislation, for social security expansion, and for adequate curbs on inflation. Governor Dewey has said little or nothing about most of these measures, although some of them are in effect in New York State...
Hanover was reportedly deserted at 8 p.m. last evening, with virtually the entire Dartmouth student body either en route or already in the Boston area. However, the influx of 3,000 men in Green had no noticeable effect on Boston, with local hotels reporting all quiet at mid-night...
...letter to the editors of all Boston newspapers, Professors Sumner Slichter, John Dunlop, James Healy, Douglas Brown, Charles Myers, and Saul Wallen, all labor relations experts and impartial arbitrators, made this observation about referendum no. 6: ". . . The practical effect of this provision would be to cause union members to arm their representatives with a strike vote before negotiations begin. As a result, negotiations will tend to be conducted in an atmosphere of hostility and tension. A similar provisions in the War Labor Disputes Act (Smith-Connally Act) tended to cause strikes rather than prevent them...