Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the Belgian Ambassador's perturbation. Washington society gasped at the ferocity of the Post's attack. The Diplomatic Corps was loyally unanimous in its explanation of what lay behind the Post's report and comment. Chorused the diplomatists (in effect...
Seymour Parker Gilbert. Agent General of the Reparations Commission in Germany, he has been, in effect, the house physician for European money matters. Collecting from Germany, disbursing to the Allies, he has watched Germany's financial temperature and heartbeat for three years, advising here, criticising there, until he considered his patient ready to enter another consultation for new treatments. His chief reward for his work will be more work. He is to be adopted by the House of Morgan...
...increase union membership in mills now operating and thus collect dues to sustain the strik ers already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
Since ignored Russia and impotent Germany could not influence the decisions of the statesmen in Geneva, a practical effect of the Hoover decision was to enable France and Italy to carry their point that "trained reserves" and "military supplies" shall not be reduced. The German delegate, Count von Bernstorff, expressed his chagrin as follows...
...three rival colleges a year. Under such conditions the administration of amateur rules is simplified for those to whom their enforcement makes any difference: the limited number in a league makes possible the application of its rules to its members. But in leagues of unwieldy size this salutary effect hardly exists and in this financial consideration, of the number of paying contests each year, is the connection of professionalism and gate-receipts...