Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago Thomas Dewey, at the height of his campaign to bust the big racketeering trusts, descended upon Harlem with devastating effect, scaring the wits out of most of the bankers and collectors. Most of the busy executives of the industry left the city. Six months later Dixie Davis and eleven others were indicted. Dixie Davis had a $5,000 reward put on his head...
...Military balance might thus be regarded as inclining toward the Government. But that prospect is complicated by other factors, of which the most important are first, the food shortage from which the areas in Government possession are suffering, secondly, the wearying and exhausting effect of constant air raids on the civil population where there is a deficiency of means to check them...
Both contests will vitally effect Harvard's chances of winning hockey and basketball league honors and in neither case will the Crimson be at top playing strength because of the customary effect on team play and conditioning following the mid-year examination period...
...claimed by the report of the Freshman by-laws committee of the Council that the added month will give the electorate more time to consider the candidates. In fact, this added month will have no effect. Voters will still not know for whom they are voting, and Union Committee members or sports heroes will still be elected...
...vote of the Student Council last night the annual Freshman elections for class office will take place in the latter part of March and not in February. The change goes into effect with the present Yard group...