Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Government was threatening their business. President William Hartman Woodin of American Car and Foundry Co. - a Wet Republican who supported Alfred Emanuel Smith for President - called for united protest, thus: "Certainly the sport of boating cannot be safe if the lives and property of boat owners are subject to such perils. . . . Our Government should be asked to curtail the activities of Coast Guard boats. . . . Boat manufacturers with large invested capital are concerned about the future of the pleasure boat industry unless public confidence can be restored." To still the troubled waters of yachting, Commandant Billard, a determined officer...
Growing newspaper chains (threatening death to oldtime, flavorful individualistic journalism),and further penetration of the so-called power trust into newspaper ownership or control (threatening death to the Freedom of the Press) were the headline subjects at the seventh annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in Washington last week. Few important U. S. newspaper editors are their own masters nowadays. Nevertheless, what they say illuminates the consensus of newspaper opinion. ¶ Editor Willis John Abbot (Christian Science Monitor) asked that the society inquire into the activities of the power trust with reference to newspaper ownership...
Speaking on the subject, Resolved; That the governments of the world should adopt a system of compulsory arbitration in international disputes, the Freshman affirmative debating team defeated the Princeton Freshmen by a two to one decision last night in the New Lecture Hall before a small and unenthusiastic audience...
...University in memory of her husband an endowment for a fellowship, carrying a stipend of $500. This aid, which will be known as the Forris Jewett Moore Fellowship in Organic Chemistry, will be awarded to assist some graduate of the University who has distinguished himself in that subject while an undergraduate and wishes to engage in further work in the field. The beneficiary is to be a member of the graduating class of the year preceding that in which he holds the fellowship. At the discretion of the University, the award may be made to the same...
...Pasteur Medal, which is awarded annually by the French Department to the best debater on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, was first presented in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin...