Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's example of the use of a congressional frank and its effect on the postal deficit: in June Senator William Edgar Borah made a speech in behalf of the debenture plan of farm relief, against the Hoover plan (now-adopted). It sounded politically good to the Democrats whose National Committee secured Senator Borah's permission to use it and the Borah frank for distribution. The Democrats' only expense was for reprinting the speech. The Democratic National Committee sent out 1,000,000 copies to husbandmen throughout the land. Declared Senator Borah: 'That...
Last week Administrator Campbell rolled up a batch of several hundred uninvestigated complaints against speakeasies, despatched them to Commissioner Whalen, called that official's attention to Section 1530 of the Penal Code and the Court of Appeals' decision, told him, in effect, to get busy and dry up New York City. Wrote Prohibitor Campbell: "If the police make raids and the several magistrates and district attorneys conscientiously do their duty, the speakeasies in New York will rapidly fade away...
...Love (Sovkino). Only the apparent conviction of Russian film directors that no picture is complete unless it points a political moral in support of the existing Russian government-a conviction dictated to them by forces outside their craft-spoils the effect of this good story. Emma Zessarskaya plays a peasant woman who has a love affair with an Austrian prisoner working in Russian fields. As long as the conflict remains a private one between her independent ideas and the standards of her neighbors, the picture is worthwhile, believable. Before it ends the Austrian, a practical, unimaginative fellow up to that...
...word of a saint doubted!?that was something on which the Committee could vote unanimously and instantaneously with a clear conscience. "We recommend Dr. Hu for severe punishment," read their resolution. "We petition the Central Executive Committee to effect his arrest for having publicly insulted the late leader of the party, Sun Yat sen, and destructively criticized his ideals, which must be considered as an act of treason against the government and the people...
...Inlets. Little progress has been made in efforts towards a national agreement to restrict production, an agreement which could end overnight any danger of oil drugging the market. Yet great hopes are held for the results of a California law which goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction...