Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey by some outstanding economist of the effect of Prohibition on Industry...
...inquiry into the effect on Health and Hygiene...
...nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice. So he called again for great-voiced John McNab...
Finally, to render the romance of Tannhauser overture, he unromantically removed his collar and coat. The hour over, he leaned closer to the microphone, asked in effect: "Do radio listeners like such music? If not, let me know and I'll broadcast no more concerts...
...slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins, and the Movietone records Charles Morton's body-shaking sobs as short, shrill, barks, the screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet Gaynor's voice and the generally superior acting of the cast; but before the end, peace is restored, and one is able to appreciate the picture again. Nancy Drexel and Barry Norton do well as the running mates of the other couple, and Mary Duncan, as the baroness...