Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt. Secretary Marvin Mclntyre refused him an appointment with the President, but the President's Negro Valet Irvin H. McDuffie? who sometimes leaves notes on his employer's pillow and tactfully gets unofficial callers in through the White House kitchen, was able to arrange a private meeting. What effect Walter White's address to the President may have had Washington last week was not sure...
...without prejudice to the right of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution to exercise jurisdiction over the whole of that territory, the laws enacted by that Parliament shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws of the Free State and the like extraterritorial effect." Article Four: "The name of the State is Eire...
...Edwards, head of the Psychological Department which is conducting a 100 hour "no sleep" test to determine the effect on mind and body, said only the eyes of the subjects have shown any noticeable strain...
Last Wednesday a building service worker claimed that before the Depression the standard wage for this type of work was $30 a week. Three pay cuts reduced salaries of many to as low as $24, he said, adding that the $2 average increase did not effect a complete restitution...
...Barbados, the first stop, his rhapsody over scarlet poinsettias brought a hysterically savage execration from an Englishwoman returning to exile in Colombia. Before long, tropical colors had the same psychopathic effect on Farson as well. The South American neuroses of other foreigners were as bad or worse. The rare visitor able to cope with South American life seemed to Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully...