Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...oath as President of Panama faithfully to observe that constitution. Seventeen days later he presented Panama's unicameral Legislature with a proposed Bill of Reforms to remake the constitution. On Nov. 22 the Legislature approved the Bill. Last week, in a plebiscite, the people voted it into effect. Since the voting officials distributed "yes" and "no" votes to be marked, and since Government watchers packed every polling place, the opposition to President Arias' machine-made Government registered only 537 votes out of more than 100,000 for the new constitution...
...fabulous bushy red eyebrows. From his office window he keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost, the Government to own the plants. Result of this combination of patriotism and restraint: at industry's own request, a large part of the U. S. arms business was in effect nationalized...
...country. Pierre Laval is no longer part of the Government. Pierre Etienne Flandin receives the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Constitutional Act No. 4, which designated my successor, is annulled. It is for high reasons of interior policy that I resolved to take this action. It has no effect upon our relations with Germany. I remain at the helm. The national revolution continues...
...effect, anything but theatrically outlandish, was of a richly lighted Lear centring around a grey hill of steps that revolved for scene changes. The actors often pointed up the dialogue by posturing up and down the steps. They also made sallies into the aisles. If Piscator intended to de-emphasize the individual actors, his accomplishment was not noticeable. The veteran Sam Jaffe (of The Jazz Singer, Grand Hotel and Hollywood) was a subtle, moving Lear whose chief fault was that his appearance kept suggesting that ex-Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was playing the part...