Word: effective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sawyer also issued a pointed warning to farmers and labor-the sharpest rebuke yet heard from a member of the Truman Administration. "Some so-called liberals," he said, "have adopted . . . the fixed idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal attitude...
Fulton presented evidence from psychologists, juvenile judges and educators that the gory comics (Canadian circulation 5,000,000 a year v. an estimated 145 million in the U.S.) have a bad effect on children, rolled up an impressive backing of parent-teacher associations and clubwomen. The publishers unwittingly did their bit. To prove to Parliament that their books were really good clean fun, they distributed them to M.P.s Many were so aghast at them that they hustled to support Fulton...
...General Assembly voted to put into action the third part of the 1947 Palestine plan. Under the program the Trusteeship Council will internationalize Jerusalem, with the U.N. in control. This is a proper solution to a peace-disturbing problem, if the UN can put the plan into effect...
...system won favor with the administration of the University and with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for three reasons. First, it makes possible long-range budgeting by the departments and the Faculty. Second, after it has had time to take effect, it protects a department from having suddenly to replace a large portion of its permanent staff in one year or in two or three years because of bunching of retirements or deaths. And finally, it gives a man who wants a permanent appointment to any department an exact date on which to expect a vacancy to occur...
Course Size: Cause or Effect...