Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week addressed 65,000 listeners massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre. Occasion of the speech was the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the U. S. Constitution by 38 delegates in Philadelphia. Having made the Constitution the most controversial U. S. political subject of the year, the President took the opportunity to define his views on it, emphasize the familiar theme that in the past four years the Supreme Court has obstructed the will of the U. S. electorate by legalistic interpretations...
...President had not known that gossip credited Hugo Black with belonging to the Ku Klux Klan before nominating him to the Supreme Court, he could scarcely have failed to learn about it soon afterward. Before the Senate confirmed the nomination, the subject of Hugo Black's connection with the Klan was discussed on the floor. By last week, at least nine Senators who had voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black...
...English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition (biggest since 1846) was not divulged. Nothing official was said about the embarrassing subject, but it was unofficially felt that Thomas James Wise had paid his forger's debt in full...
This time 33-year-old immigrant Author Adamic's subject, lacking the autobiographical ties which have stimulated him in writing his previous books, handicaps him. As with The Native's Return, his best-selling account of a revisit to his native Yugoslavia, Author Adamic wrote The House in Antigua as an accidental result of a pleasure trip to Guatemala in 1936. His original purpose was merely "to get away from it all." He picked Antigua, former capital of Guatemala, because friends rhapsodized over its ruins, and because he "had long been responsive to these lines in the second...
...Dean would not go far in the way of political comments and declined to discuss the subject of Senator Black's appointment. As for the appointment of William O. Douglas as SEC head, Dean Landis said that it was "a fine choice...