Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's failure to indorse Governor Curley and Charles F. Burley, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, on his recent trip to Massachusetts, will have no appreciable effect on the election results next Tuesday, in the opinion of John W. Haigis, nominee of the Republican party...
...this country into a Green and a Lewis camp, which was openly fostered by the President and his underlings, can do anything but set the labor movement back several decades Mr. Roosevelt has not yet explained what it is. If the rabble-rousing speeches of the President have any effect on the worker, it is only in accentuating class differences between capital and labor which have never existed in this country...
...landscape portion is handled with real decorative adroitness, but it may be objected that the forms . . . remain static, posed, studio figures. The effect of the whole, if brilliantly contrived, is pedantic and artificial...
...Smithsonian administers the U. S. National Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, a group of astrophysical observatories, a laboratory for studying the effect of radiation on organisms, a service which officially exchanges governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane...
...even readers impressed with Author Farrell's grimly powerful portraits of poverty are likely to be thrown off by their monotony, by his characters' obsessed disgust with sexual and other bodily functions that has the strange effect of making them seem uniformly immature...