Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill with Robert Ramspeck's fountain pen. Then Ramspeck cautioned reporters not to expect miracles; the measure's full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...
...Australian Minister concluded his talk by pointing out that "Australia is heart and soul with Britain in her fight, which is, in effect, our fight, and there is no admission whatsoever of possible defeat...
Most impressive among the projects now underway is a mural being painted on the wall behind the main stairway in Bunt Hall by John A. Holabird Jr. '42, following the theme that man must retain his individuality despite modern machinery and industrialization. The mural expresses, in effect, the fundamental credo of the course...
...talk will be devoted partly to a political and partly to a literary discussion of world affairs and their influence on American thinking. Among others, Hicks will discuss Archibald Macleish, Ernest Hemingway, John Strachey, and Ralph Bates, and the effect that international events has had on their poetry...
Radcliffe's energies are taking on such proportions as to warrant forming a Social Service Committee there on a large scale. Meanwhile Harvard's Phillips Brooks House is to publish a report including comparative graphs of social service work being done by various colleges, and an article on the effect of P. B. H. work on juvenile delinquency in Boston...