Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This would not be my program, but if, as would appear, it is the program of the majority, they should assume full responsibility for it and put it into effect without delay and without compromises for the benefit of any special groups...
Under the "heavy pressure of circumstances" the Kingdom of Rumania last week signed a trade treaty with the Third Reich which, in effect, converted Rumania from an independent nation to a German dependency. In no instance of modern times has one State made such humiliating, far-reaching economic concessions to another as Rumania's King Carol II made in Bucharest last week to Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Führer Hitler's traveling salesman...
...principal effect in Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...third Council proposal, that out-of-House men be given athletic secretaries and full intramural facilities, has already been put into effect. In addition the Masters voted that associate members be charged a fee of $25 to "meet the additional expense which will be made necessary by the admission of extra members...
Henry's real name was Henrietta (Handel thrown in for musical effect). Born into a family of amateur tooters and strummers in Melbourne, she attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College there, later studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. Writing was a sidetrack which turned out to be her main line. She took the masculine pseudonym, she says, because she did not want allowances made...