Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owned stock in many other business enterprises. The stock in this company was disposed of before I took office as Secretary of the Treasury; in fact, the distillery company absolutely ceased from doing any of its manufacturing business over three years before the prohibition amendment went into effect, and the entire business was subsequently wound up. At no time was I ever actively engaged in the distilling business. I have no interest in or connection with the distillation of liquor or any liquor business. Very truly yours...
Said he in effect: "A nation which holds in its hands the economic leadership of the world cannot afford to oscillate from one foreign policy to another according to whom or to which party momentarily occupies the White House...
Father Momolo Zamboni vigorously denied all guilt, but produced a very bad effect upon the Court by remarking with candor and simplicity: "We are Anarchical Communists. Anarchical because we do not want any government. Where there is government there is authority, and where there is authority there is not that true liberty which we desire. We are Communists because we wish that everything which exists or which is produced be shared by everybody...
...newly and uncomfortably garbed Assembly was summoned again, last week, put through Occidental paces and induced to pass bills of the following effect...
...made his mouth tired and reduced his appetite. His weight declined 30 pounds. His muscular endurance sank far down, as did his basal metabolism, and his efficiency upon the typewriter. His blood pressure, pulse, temperature, sleeping time, and ability in mental multiplication remained unchanged by Fletcherism. The only beneficial effect he found in Fletcherism was a marked increase in his ability to solve chess problems...