Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criticize the President for vacationing when he should be dealing with the business recession. In other sections of the same issue you state, in effect, that the recession is not helped by gloomy talk. Is it not reassuring that the President feels that he can be away...
During the course of his speech, Johnson hoisted himself to political heights without precedent by referring to himself, in effect, as President of the U.S. (south Pennsylvania Avenue division). "As majority leader of the Senate," said he, "I am aided by a cabinet made up of committee chairmen. I have conferred with them. I think they will expedite action." (Columnist Doris Fleeson, who loves Democrats but has built up an immunity to Johnson's charm, asked if he had worked out a disability agreement with his second-in-command, Montana's Mike Mansfield.) Next day Johnson...
...Detroit on the Murray Corp., a subcontractor manufacturing airplane parts for the U.S. Air Force. The city assessor counted as taxable property some $2,000,000 worth of parts, materials, etc., which were chargeable to the U.S. Government and were labeled as U.S. property. Ruled the court majority, in effect: the city was taxing not the federal property, but Murray's "possession" of it-a ruling that opened up for local taxation billions of dollars of federal property held or leased by defense plants. Dissented Justice Frankfurter: "I cannot believe that the Court is prepared frankly to jettison what...
...continent where general-presidents have all too often tried to perpetuate themselves in office. Aramburu's conduct had an exemplary effect well beyond the borders of Argentina. Items: ¶Colombia's five-man military junta, which will hold an election March 16. says: "We shall turn over our powers to a civilian President at 3 p.m.. Aug. 7. 1958." ¶Venezuela's provisional President. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. promises elections for a constituent assembly before the year...
...gross national product increased more than 5% last year, is expected to continue to climb; though the industrial production index in January was down seasonally from December, it still topped January 1957. Housing starts were down, but Italian leaders feel that the U.S. will halt its recession, avoid any effect on the Italian economy...