Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Objects fairly leapt from the screen as the Engineering Society viewed three-dimensional color movies at a meeting in Pierce Hall last night. The effect of these pictures was so realistic that onlookers had the sensation of gazing at a scene through a window rather than seeing a picture projected on a screen...
...Cabinet. Half an hour after the amnesty went into effect Chancellor Schuschnigg announced himself at the head of a new Cabinet, which was sworn in at 2 a. m. One of the 18 ministers was an Austrian Nazi, Minister of Interior...
Ever since he became Prime Minister, businesslike Neville Chamberlain has shown he meant to clean up what he considers the mess his predecessor Stanley-Baldwin made of British foreign policy. It was Stanley Baldwin's idea in 1935 to equip Great Britain in effect with two foreign secretaries: 1) a popular young idealist who could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs...
...group of spirits whom they call the "Ascended Masters." These include Christ and Moses, but their most articulate spokesman is one "Saint Germain." St. Germain, says Mr. Ballard, appeared to him on Mt. Shasta eight years ago, gave him a drink of "creamy liquid" of which "the electrical vivifying effect on my mind made me gasp with surprise...
...International Steel Cartel and the Steel Export Association of America have decided on common export price levels for the ensuing fiscal, or cartel, year at lower levels than previously in effect. . . . Moreover, export quotas on some dozen steel commodities have been assigned to various member countries. Thus the U. S. has been assigned definite tonnages which it can sell monthly to Brazil, Argentina, Japan, China and other important steel-consuming countries...