Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of these boys, with perfect candor, have told me bluntly and boastfully that they practice the art of love with more perfection than white boys, and occasionally one of the girls has supplied me with information to the same effect. In fact some of the disclosures in this regard are perfectly startling in their nature." "Well," said Señor Paredes urbanely, "the Judge admits that Filipinos are great lovers...
...Blue Danube", to a medley of the swing category, aided by Al Bowell, advertised as "England's Prince of Song." Maybe it was because we had heard Calloway's organization first, but Noble didn't seem to live up to his advance notices. At any rate the total effect of both bands is practically overpowering...
Last week the Federal Reserve Board, exercising its power to regulate margins as it pleases, abolished the 100%-low rule, leaving in effect the straight 45%-current-value formula, which means 55% margins. It was this part of the old formula that the Reserve Board changed last winter, upping margins from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). The other formula was not only complicated but obsolete, since the majority of stocks have long since pushed through the upper limit of the anti-pyramid zone it created, again enabling marketeers to borrow and buy more stocks with their paper profits...
...Effective April 1, the change in market margins will cause little commotion, for the Roosevelt market continues to be largely a cash affair. Brokers loans, which were as high as $8,500,000,000 in 1929, are now about $1,000,000,000, having risen only $300,000,000 in the past year. The bank margins go into effect May 1, are not retroactive...
...Christopher Columbus' home port two months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...