Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story on Mexico's Diego Rivera, they asked the artist if he would like to do his own cover portrait. As a result, a new self-portrait of Rivera, drawn to TIME'S specifications, appears on this week's cover-the first time that a cover subject has done his own portrait for TIME...
...from the House, also decided to pass the buck for rent control back to the home folks. Led by Arkansas' Democrat Bill Fulbright, it voted a bill extending federal control for 15 months, but permitting any state, county, city or village government to vote out rent control locally, subject to the veto of state governors. All that was needed to finish the job was to iron out the conflicts between the Senate and House bills...
...underground again, leaving the ruins above ground to mock their conquerors." But there are other types of underground Germans-the thousands of homeless in Düsseldorf and every Ruhr city, who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkholler (bunker frenzy...
...sense-making petroleum code fostered a billion-dollar industry, Colombia's confusing, ultra-nationalist oil laws had crippled efforts to develop resources. It often took ten years to get an exploration concession through Colombian courts. After that, the million dollars spent on drilling a new well would be subject to tax whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take, in taxes and royalties, sometimes ran over half the value of a company's net revenue. "Colombia," growled an oilman in Bogota...
...current series of articles marks the second time that the Tribune has "studied radical thoughts at Harvard." In January 1947 Griffin wrote a series on the same subject after spending several days in Cambridge. At that time he wrote that "Harvard makes almost a fetish of permitting radicalism to florish...