Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Gallup poll on the subject showed that 58% of its respondents considered Depression more accurate than Recession as a description of the current state of U. S. business...
Incomplete later figures suggested that the British subject still led in being most heavily taxed. Over a long period the average Briton has become so accustomed to this that he often, half-humorously, half-proudly, boasts about his proven ability to thrive while carrying the world's heaviest per capita tax load...
...Chicago last week another blow was struck at the crumbling conspiracy of silence about syphilis. The Federal Theatre Project presented a propaganda play on the subject called Spirochete. Tracing the history of the disease and its cure from 1493 to 1937, boldly flashing microscopic plates showing the spirochete, or spiral syphilis germ, on a screen, the play for the most part proved good theatre, evoked a magnificent first-night response...
...annual convention last week in Manhattan's lush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. All conventions make reports, pass resolutions, let off steam in general, and the A.N.P.A. meeting was no exception. Last week's meeting, however, was more hot air than steam, more dull ditchwater than racing current. Principal subject of contemplation was Freedom of the Press...
A.N.P.A.'s committee on the subject noted only one development in the past year to which it could point with pride: a Supreme Court decision which gave Alma Lovell, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, and all other freeborn Americans the right to distribute leaflets without first getting a permit (TIME, April 11). And actually it was the American Civil Liberties Union and the Workers Defense League, rather than the A.N.P.A., who had aided Mrs. Lovell. But the Committee on Freedom of the Press, headed by Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was willing...