Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist Premier Léon Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash the good news to his Government. Paris afternoon papers were the most friendly to Germany in months. In effect a kiss of diplomatic accord had been given by Aryan Hitler to Jew Blum, and that was news at which every lover of Peace rejoiced...
Getting down from Anarchist theory to Anarchist practice, the larger factories and industrial plants of Barcelona had in fact last week resumed production. They were running under councils of workmen and it remained to be seen whether these could continue to obtain raw materials, pay wages and effect profitable sales after the Spanish civil war is over. For the time being, every Barcelona factory capable of being converted to make war materials was running full blast, the Madrid Cabinet buying hand-over-fist everything it could get to arm its militia, paying with gold from the vaults of the Bank...
...action on the story, ordered its Washington Bureau to dig in the RA publicity files for confirmation. Next day the Herald Tribune frontpaged an article about three other Rothstein "drought pictures," in at least two of which the same steer's skull had apparently been used for dramatic effect. One print was labeled "Drought Victim," giving the distinct impression that the steer had just been laid low by the weather. Another was located in "the Bad Lands" which no farmer in his right mind would attempt to cultivate...
Dubiel's loss will be felt most seriously not only because of his ability but because of the psychological effect that it may have on the rest of the team. A jinx seems to have been trailing Harvard captains for two years now, Dubiel being unable to muster the necessary number of C's, while the year before Bob Haley was put out of the lineup on the very eve of the first game on charges of professionalism...
...hoped that criticisms of some fields of concentration printed in this year's Guide may have the same effect...