Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment the bill was opened to amendments from the floor, Georgia's John Stephens Wood was on his feet. He offered an "amendment" which was actually an entire bill. Congressman Wood's proposal would, in effect, re-enact the Taft-Hartley Act. The fight promptly became: Lesinski bill v. Wood bill...
...handful of Washington newsmen, he incautiously confirmed some of John Sullivan's worst fears. The newsmen came away with the distinct impression that Johnson was intending to absorb all of Marine Corps aviation into the Air Force or the Navy or both, and that a directive to that effect was already in the works...
...trusts of the Zaibatsu, big family combines, were broken up. SCAP, however, had nothing to substitute for the old Japanese way of doing business. The Zaibatsu unquestionably carried a heavy share of Japanese war guilt. But instead of punishing individuals for individual offenses, the U.S. economic policy in effect punished the entire Japanese nation because the effect of it was to forestall such limited economic recovery as was still possible. The 1945 basic U.S. occupation directive to MacArthur had stated flatly: "You will not assume any responsibility for the economic rehabilitation or the strengthening of the Japanese economy...
...that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow in all Japan. Asked what effect recent political events in China were having on Japan, his dead-fish eyes lit up: "Hee, hee, hee," he giggled, "a very great effect, very good...
...woman reporter tried the jacket with no effect, but no one paid much attention to her. The curse of the jacket was for more sensitive folk. The very next time Actress O'Foyle put it on, she fainted dead away. "There were hands," she gasped on reviving, "very old hands and very gnarled. They had worked on the land...