Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harding and Mr. Hughes proposed that the United States join The Hague Permanent Court of International Justice . . . Whether or not the plan is put into effect by this Congress or another or not at all, the multiplication of such proposals coming from our own government shows a growing sense of American discontent with isolation...
...ileitis operation, the President made a remarkable recovery from his stroke last November; his doctors say that recovery is now complete and that, beyond a bothersome cold, he has suffered no other illnesses. But in another sense the answer is yes: President Eisenhower is 67; the cumulative effect of his three major illnesses has sapped his second-term strengths. Chief result: even when at his Washington desk, the President has been forced to cut his daily work load by as much...
Predictably, all this made no detectable dent in the iron-clad convictions of the House's high-tariff camp, led by Pennsylvania's husky Republican Representative Richard M. Simpson. Tariffanatic Simpson is bent on pushing through an amendment that would, in effect, leave tariff power under Congressional control, hatchet the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for "escape clause" tariff increases-a power that Ike has used to scotch 14 of the 23 increases the commission has recommended during his five years in office...
When Lovett finally gave up the course in 1954, enrollment stood at 300. In 1944 Lovett headed a faculty study that had a profound effect on Yale. "If the nemesis of the strictly sectarian college is its dogmatism," the study declared, "that of the broadly liberal university is its aimlessness." Lovett and his committee recommended that Yale set up a full-fledged graduate and undergraduate department of religion, manned not only by theologians but by psychologists, anthropologists, historians and philosophers. The time had come, said they, to end the "idolatry of every discipline for itself," and to try to reconcile...
...year Schmitz went to Washington. In the next five years, his budget doubled to nearly $7,000,000; the faculty increased from 522 to 797. More important, the already high standards on his campus soared even higher. The classics experienced a renaissance; a stiff science program was put into effect last year, and the honors program was extended to allow bright freshmen and sophomores to strike out on their own. Last week, as Michigan mourned the loss of its able dean, Washington rejoiced. Observed Seattle's weekly Argus: "Seldom has a new university president been so universally acceptable...