Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only newsy answer that he gave to any question served to bring the subject back to the pressing but rather more comfortable topic of foreign relations. Asked in cleverly-framed words whether he considered that holding a national referendum on declaring war would be consistent with representative government, he answered, flatly...
...free man he hates the tyrant and despises his addiction to war. As a worker whom his fellowmen have rarely over-burdened with material rewards, he appreciates his $23.86 from WPA, can live pretty well on it and wants to keep it. On the very practical subject of subsistence, the Artists' Congress, to which such noted professionals as William Zorach, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Rockwell Kent, Stuart Davis, Max Weber, George Biddle, were delegates, was eloquent indeed. This practicality distinguished the Artists' Congress from the American Writers' Congress of last summer (TIME, June...
...priest, whose bishop had apparently not been consulted before the contest began, said that he had promised 75% of gross receipts to Promoter Clifford. But this was denied by Clifford, also under arrest last week in Cleveland. Post Office Department officials declared they had warned Father Cox he was subject to investigation when his contest started. Since no one ordered the contest stopped last week, "Garden Stakes" employes continued sorting names suggested for the garden of St. Patrick's Church...
From Germany last week arrived the first extensive report on a piquant subject, Adolf Hitler's grammar. As is well known to German editors and foreign correspondents, the Führer, at the height of his harangues, often leaves his prepared official text and soars off in silver-tongued bombast, only to become lost in the inversions of German sentence structure. Foreign newshawks watch for these flights to cable facetious cracks at the Führer's grammar. Vexed by such treatment, Hitler recently acted in defense of his eloquence. He set up no less than an Official...
...similar committee appointed to investigate raising brokerage commissions. It recommended a general 10.8% upping of commission rates for nonmember trading. 5% for member trading, odd-lot trading to remain as is. To reach these conclusions had taken the committee and its predecessors some 35 months since the subject was first broached by the Exchange on Jan. 9, 1935. Noting this fact and the simultaneous appointment of a new committee, the New York Times dryly commented: "The precedent can hardly be overlooked. Nov. 9, 1940 is the logical date for the report...