Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most heinous offense, in Nazis' eyes, was to have in effect conspired to pile up in Manhattan a secret fund of some $100.000 which otherwise would have gone partly to other U. S. creditors, partly to Germany in taxes. "This Bernstein did," snorted the judge, "for purely egotistical purposes...
...stories and flimsy medical excuses will no longer allow students to skip their midyears and take makeup exams later, according to the rewording of the regulation this year. This is the first time the new ruling will take effect. It goes on as follows...
...ovens cold and his drafting board dusty. Freer, more decisive, more vivid than any past productions of this able artist, the paintings affected other beholders like a bracing breeze. First Range of the Rockies, done in Colorado last summer, was a majestic landscape in greens and purples, given an effect of great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases, showed Mrs. Poor (Novelist Bessie Breuer) in a brown dress and bright green bandanna, engrossed in typescript at an open window ablaze with yellow autumn...
...mills which would like still higher prices, beat Great Northern to it, announced a $50 contract price for the first six months of 1938. Great Northern's price, announced seven months later, was $48 for the first six months and $50 for the second six months, which in effect keeps International from raising its price again till...
Judge Mahoney's blast against Tammany Hall comes at a time when such attacks may be more practical effect then the crusades of colorful preachers and columnists. The movement to reform the Democratic organization of New York Country has the twofold advantage of a capable leader and a new environment in which Tammany is no longer the only organization catering to social needs...