Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pausing thoughtfully on the steps, Mr. Harrison sucks heavily on his frankfurter-sized cigar-or Mr. Doughton fiddles with his broad-brimmed sombrero-and says in effect: Revenues are pouring into the Treasury in a way that gladdens our hearts. No tax increases will be necessary...
...members threatened the complicated structure of union benefits that old members had accumulated). First peace negotiations broke down because A. F. of L. officials insisted that C. I. O. unions return with the same status they had held before the split. But when A. F. of L. agreed in effect to accept them as they now are, the last big obstacle to peace, so far as I.L.G.W.U. was concerned, disappeared...
...minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil may be dimmed by the present tragedy of a nation...
About eight weeks ago, this column reported that Artic Shaw was going to be forced out of the music business. Last week Shaw apparently refuted this story by giving out a statement to the effect that he was sick and tired of the band business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with...
...that would probably have forced him to live up to his contract with another recording firm. His recent polemics against the people he plays for and the natural public protest are obviously factors of no importance. And the item that one of the movie journals printed recently to the effect that Shaw was one of the most unpopular men in Hollywood because of his absolutely impossible arrogance and his hypercriticality is of no consequence...