Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brand issued an alibi (see LETTERS). He had "gone over" his back files. "I find," he said, "that I was advocating, as a means of agricultural relief, the production of sugar and wool in the United States that we were purchasing abroad." Mr. Hoover said something to the same effect at that time so Mr. Brand thought Mr. Hoover would make the best Secretary of Agriculture possible. Later, he discovered that Mr. Hoover's ideas did not coincide with his own. "So my hopes for Mr. Hoover were blasted," said Mr. Brand...
Here came Lawyer Littleton's trick. The defense dropped the Fall deposition unexpectedly, abruptly, and terminated its case without giving the Government the openings it had counted on. The effect was the same as Sinclair's last trial, which was halted and called off before all the evidence was in, when it was found that Sinclair was sleuthing his jury. This time it was not a mistrial, however. Except for summing up, this trial was over...
That a more telling argument than any had been Lawyer Littleton's to the effect that a man like Sinclair, if he were going in for a conspiracy, would not have stopped at the trifling cost of $304,000; and Fall, if he were selling Teapot Dome, could easily have gotten more than a quartermillion...
Further the Briand Treaty provides that violation of the pact by one of the signatories releases the others from their obligations; and that the Treaty shall not come into effect when signed but await the decision of the signatories at a special conference called to determine when it shall become operative...
...well-worn remark to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...