Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because flour imported into France is subject to the high protective tariff of 65 francs per cwt., whereas the corresponding duty on unmilled wheat is only 35 francs...
Admitting the present ineffectiveness of the League of Nations. Europe still seeks for itself a practical organization for the prevention of war, and at present the Pan-European Union is becoming the subject of considerable speculation. Geographically and commercially Europe is so closely bound that its lack of a congress for the treatment of international problems and for the propagation of deep rooted amity such as America possesses theoretically in the Pan American Union has dangerously inverted its national and economic consciousness. Again, it realizes the menace that Russia once stabilized will present with its deter, mined propagandist program...
Today, if it can manage to reach a decision in the one day allotted to the subject, the House of Representatives votes on the Muscle Shoals question. There are three possible plans, which will be considered--all of them dealing with phases of government operation of the tremendous plant. Private operation plans, which would necessarily involve great losses to the United States, have all been abandoned...
...life of the average Italian citizen has undergone such severe regulation of late that he scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will...
When the Daughters of the American Revolution hissed and sputtered before and during their annual "congress" in Washington last fortnight, over a subject called "blacklisting," observers concluded that the cause of the trouble was a policy of the Daughters which had been chosen by their high officials without the untitled mass of the membership knowing or caring much about it. Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie of Cambridge, the Daughter who raised her voice against "blacklists," made little headway at the congress. She and her friends and their resolutions were soon silenced. The victory of President-General Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau...