Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, charged independent Laos, the Communists have in effect demanded that the free section of the country move into the Communist orbit as the price of integration. For example, the Reds want the independents to accept aid and technical advice from the Chinese Communists and to create a coalition government in which the Communists would get such posts as minister of interior and defense. Moreover, the Communists have been attacking the government's outlying posts, apparently to create pressure for acceptance of their conditions...
...reassurance it needs. Gist of the State Department note (similar ones went out from Britain and France): the U.S. continues to support the authority of the royal government "over all its territory" and "welcomes the firmness" with which it has resisted the Communist reintegration terms. Net effect of the reassurances: to put the Communists on notice that any dirty work in Laos could easily bring down on them the full force of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization...
...over the previous period, to an all-time high of 118.9. The increase, seventh consecutive one in as many months, brought living costs 3.7% over what they were a year ago-and the U.S. dollar down to 81% of what it was worth in 1947-49. An immediate effect of the rise: automatic (1? to 3? an hour) wage hikes for some 1,400,000 industrial workers whose earnings are tied to the cost-of-living escalator. Hardest to be hit will be the millions of other Americans living on pensions or other forms of fixed income. Moreover, because prices...
...With a single exception, trial by jury has never been required in contempt cases to which the U.S. Government was a party. The exception: the Norris-La Guardia Act of 1932 required jury trials in contempt proceedings arising from labor disputes. The provision was in effect repealed (with the enthusiastic approval of most Southern Congressmen) by the Taft-Hartley...
...specific date for a constitutional convention, Mississippians expect it in December, a month before the legislature opens its regular session. Confident of support, when the time comes, from a bloc of young pro-Coleman legislators and from some oldtimers with specific constitutional changes on their minds, Coleman in effect gave to his newspaper question this answer: "Mississippi will have a new constitution. It cannot live without...