Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1933, called attention to the fact that FCA, HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome assets, declared U. S. life insurance policies "the safest of all possible securities." Later when newshawks asked him if the conference was, in effect, a retort to GOPartisan Knox, the President replied: "Res ipsa loquitur...
President Angell took the attitude of reason in saying that the importance of the oath bill lies not in its immediate effect, but rather as a herald of things to come. He indulged in a bit of rightful bragging and pointed to the defeat of oath legislation in Connecticut. For the benefit of Mr. Curley he pointed out that freedom still lives across our southern border under the leadership of "Connecticut's Yale-educated governor...
...Effect of Freedom
...undergraduate of today is gratised at the great measure of freedom which the college authorities now allow him. The effect of this freedom on the student is his assumption of a large share of the responsibility for his own education. And it is safe to predict that this freedom will be no less when the College celebrates its four-hundredth birthday. Harvard has had a brilliant past. These recent developments show that Harvard, aware of the great changes that are taking place in the society of which she is a part, is prepared, now as always, to furnish that Intellectual...
...accounts."* The catch of Pacific salmon has dropped from ten million pounds annually to less than one million. Enough timber is destroyed by forest fires every year to build a five-room house every 100 feet on both sides of the road from New York to Chicago, although the effect of that, Stuart Chase observes, "might be worse than the conflagration...