Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend to vote for Mr. Hoover, although I disagree with his views about Prohibition. I think the country will come to a more intelligent way of dealing with that subject than is contained in the present laws, but that will probably be a slow process, and in the meantime the hard task of carrying on our free government with all its many difficulties and dangers must be performed by us. We need the very best man possible to be the head of that business...
...Chicago, which seemed to be Mrs. Willebrandt's base of operations, the subject grew exciting when she appeared in town and registered at the Blackstone Hotel. She would see no one, until after a two-hour conference with James William Good, Hooverizer of the West, and Walter Newton, Chairman of the G. O. P. Speaker's Bureau. Emerging she was asked point-blank what her auspices were...
...thinking it is not sufficient for the President of the United States to communicate his views in writing to Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
...There it is, 1,700 closely printed pages of testimony, only two years old, dealing with the whole subject. . . . There is no investigation needed. Everybody in Washington knows all about...
...assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following the transfer the new incumbents of each station were to be allowed a week to prepare a similar statement. Mayor Mackey planned to subject these reports to comparative analysis. "It will thus occur to the Captains," he said, "that their future in the police service will depend upon the accuracy and truth of the reports." Mayor Mackey was photographed...