Word: effective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better or worse, Franklin D. Roosevelt probably had more effect on the events of the world than any other individual...
Just how ailing, uncertain President Chanis expected to bring the trick off was something of a mystery. Remón, the strong man and orderkeeper for every Panama administration since 1946, was in effect chief of staff of the nation's only armed force, the highly trained 2,000-man police corps. He and a staff of fanatically loyal aides had absolute control of the modern police headquarters, a combination fortress, arsenal, barracks, radio communications center and model jail (known locally as the Hotel Remón). By contrast, the only force directly at the President's disposal...
...national constitution of the fraternity, which the local chapter must follow, limits the membership in effect to "any male Christian of the Aryan race." The local group went on record last spring against the discrimination clause and unanimously voted to work at last summer's S.A.E. national convention to change the provision...
...found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans. Dali wanted to have Salome's brassiere equipped with fireworks that would shoot off sparks at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils; also to have a flying hippopotamus zooming over the stage for added effect. Both schemes were regretfully rejected as impractical, along with a plan to flood the stage with blood and have John the Baptist's head float on it. Even so, predicted Designer Dali when they were finished: "Those who protest will protest loudly, but those who like it will become delirious...
...represents 136,000 small businessmen, has opened a newspaper campaign of its own. Its headline cried: "'A & P ADVERTISEMENT FALSE'-STATES U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE." But the federation was having a hard time making its rebuttal in Washington newspapers, where it thought it would have the most effect. The Post, Star and Times-Herald, which usually carry A & P ads, refused the federation's ad. Only the Daily News, which carries no regular A & P advertising, would...