Word: effects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Effect of Franklin Roosevelt's nocturnal note was to add to the incredible amount of confusion already caused by the combination of an innocuous, 40-year-old plan to make the Government more efficient with a Presidential personality capable of such gestures. When the House began its own rowdy debate on Reorganization, Administration leaders found it advisable to accept the opposition amendment reposing ultimate authority for Presidential shifts in a Congressional majority. On this basis the bill seemed sure of passage, and riding back to Washington, tanned and rested after his busy week, Franklin Roosevelt felt reasonably convinced that...
...their Berlin pipe lines dry in an effort to learn what Herr Hitler said to Mr. Hoover but their best unconfirmed information was that the Chancellor had given Listener Hoover a roseate picture of the Nazi regime and Listener Hoover had finally broken in to say testily that, in effect, "Naziism is built on principles of government that it would be wholly impossible for the people of the United States to tolerate in their own country...
...better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
...Propaganda had as big an effect on children of high...
...Tests made six months afterwards showed, however, that much of its effect was unimpaired. A method of "incidental learning" proved, however, to be more effective than propaganda. Pupils in Catholic parochial schools, who had a system of self-government, proved to be more stern toward violators of the law than those...