Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result cannot fail to be bitterly disappointing to those many millions of Americans who realized that, without the minimum protection that was projected in Section IV of the bill as it passed the House of Representatives, many fellow Americans will continue in effect to be disenfranchised...
...speech and the strategy had precisely the telling effect that Dick Russell had intended. President Eisenhower began to back away-"I was reading part of that bill this morning and there were certain phrases I didn't completely understand"-and set up a man-to-man meeting with Dick Russell in the White House. Such Northern Republicans as Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall and New Jersey's Alexander Smith, such Western liberal Democrats as Montana's Mike Mansfield and New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson allowed that they had no notions of coercing the South. Such powerful...
...directed against him through Britain's intelligence service. An ominous warning was slipped into a bouquet of flowers presented to the Duchess. "A firing of shots . . . through the bedroom window," wrote the German minister to Ribbentrop, "scheduled for the night of July 30, was omitted, since the psychological effect on the Duchess would only have been to increase her desire to depart, [but] through steady undermining of their sense of security, the Duke and Duchess were strongly influenced...
...more significant was the effect of Kerala on the rest of India. Despite belated but increasing concern in New Delhi, most Indians seemed to regard Kerala's difficulties as mere growing pains. This suits the Indian Communist Party fine. Already in the state of Madras, and in Communist-oriented Andhra, teachers and laborers are demanding equal pay to that promised (but not yet delivered) to their counterparts in Kerala...
...total effect of the U.S. influence has yet to be evaluated. Says one American resident in Tokyo: "They are using us like gunpowder-to blow up the thick walls of old custom." Gunpowder or not, the Western influence, matched by Japan's own singular drive and energy, is giving the country the highest living standard in the Far East. And the living standard in Tokyo is higher than anywhere else in the four main rich and fertile islands of Japan. This, in part, is responsible for Tokyo's spectacular population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually...