Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator's saddle, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (TIME, July 27), was host in Warsaw last week to the Chief of the Rumanian General Staff, swart, secretive General Nicolas Samsonovici. While these two great military figures conferred, Polish and Rumanian diplomats finished up three weeks work, the effect of which is to revive in full force the 1921 treaty of mutual assistance between their two heavily-armed states, each larger than Italy and nearly as potent...
...Imperial Japanese Government, sorely uncertain this week, resorted to bluster. Tokyo Foreign Minister Arita did his best to intimidate acting Premier Kung with threats to the effect that Japan "demanded" no terms be made with Kidnapper Chang of a nature unfavorable to Japan...
...party of the first part does hereby become the lawful wedded wife of the party of the second part, and the party of the second part becomes the lawful husband of the party of the first part; all to the same effect and extent as if their marriage had been solemnized before a clergyman or proper magistrate...
...opinion of the railroading Vans, MOP could well use the terminal properties they had purchased from the packers. So in December 1930 their Alleghany Corp. sold the properties to a subsidiary called Terminal Shares, Inc., and Terminal Shares in turn sold them to MOP-on the installment plan. In effect, it was a deal between the right hand and the left hand, because the Vans controlled both the buyer and the seller...
...reason for abandoning Mayflower was the possible long-range effect of the undistributed profits tax on Mayflower's theory of operation. When President Robert Earll McConnell was on the witness stand last October in the SEC's investigation of investment trusts, he pointed out that Mayflower was not an investment trust in the usual sense. Explained Mr. McConnell: "Its avowed purpose is not merely to purchase and hold securities for income, but rather to undertake hazardous ventures; to pioneer in new enterprises, and to develop new sources of minerals and raw materials...