Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft are among the immediate causes of wars. But last week the incident aroused no outcry, no demand in Congress or the press that the U. S. Navy immediately steam across the Pacific to blow Tokyo off the map. What was remarkable was that it produced precisely the opposite effect. While the State Department was engaged in sending the sharpest notes since the World War, reaction of the U. S. generally was alarm, not that Japan would go unpunished, but that the offense might somehow involve...
...Voted to send the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill back to the Labor Committee for further study and revision, in effect killing it (see below...
...There is no truth whatever to any rumors to which publicity his been given. They are silly and could have been ignored were it not that they might produce a mischievous effect...
...measure proposed the removal in wartime of some 7,000,000 people from crowded areas that may be endangered by air raids. As Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, asked for passage of the bill, he lamented that it will have the effect of "setting the clock back thousands of years . . . making men, women and children disperse over the country into the remotest districts, abandoning all the amenities and necessities of civilized life...
...dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck of the doomed excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail for her to clutch, she projects the full horror of the sinking ship. Later, as a sculptress who is Edna's husband's mistress, she contributes a sympathetic, plausible portrait that helps to save the story from bathos...