Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...
...Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan consumers...
Meanwhile, the economic effect of this $40,000,000 expenditure on New York City is negligible. The addition of some 8,000 to its 7,500,000 inhabitants will not even make a ripple. But for airline travelers, North Beach has a substantial benefit: passengers will reach Grand Central in 20 minutes, instead of 55 minutes from the Newark Field through the Holland Tunnel...
...surface, Harvard stands only to gain by this appointment. Essential in the long range campaign for better public relations are interesting radio broadcasts. Faculty dissertations on the "Effect of Income Fluctuations on the Marginal Propensity to Consume" may serve a purpose, but hardly that of making new friends for Harvard. Mr. Siepmann, who has been prominent in the realm of adult education, can be of great assistance. And the Radio Workshop could obviously ask for no better guide and tutor...
...giving Mr. Siepmann a Harvard title, which will prove an open sesame in the circles in which he will move, the University made a tactical blunder. In these days of indirect propaganda, the coloring of news dispatches and radio programs is all-important: it has a cumulative effect upon the mental climate of the people. If Britain is successful in convincing the United States that it must step in and save the cause of world civilization, Harvard can boast of having contributed to that...