Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastern Zone was a welcome and unexpected bonus. "I think perhaps we have a better opportunity . . . than we have had before," Acheson declared. "We most certainly are now in a better position to deal with the consequences of a failure . . . We cannot allow [our foreign policy] to become subject to the fluctuations produced by a raising and lowering of the international temperature. To accept these fluctuations as a guide for our policy would be to put in foreign hands a large measure of control over the conduct of our foreign relations...
...past three months, the position of the president of Queens College, New York, has been the subject of bitter debate. On one side have been New York Mayor William O'Dwyer and Democratic political leaders in the Queens...
...national A.Y.D. This it refused to do. The university's ban of the A.Y.D. followed, based on 1) the evidence that the local group's purposes were different from those under which it had been granted recognition as a campus activity group and 2) the evidence that it was subject to the influence or control of an outside political organization. There was no connection between the university's action in this matter and any appropriation measure...
...Attorney-General, Clarence A. Barnes, complained that his opponents were reading too much into his proposal. "This bill places no prohibition against the teachings of any subject or of any doctrine," he said. "It merely forbids the employment of teachers who are committed to a program of lies, deceits, and treachery...
...considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair of high-level directives forbidding public inter-service squabbles on the subject, considerably cut down tension...