Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this influx of tourists reminded President Quezon that hastening Philippine independence might be inopportune while Japan retains an imperialistic state of mind, last week was almost his last chance to reconsider his stand. Appointed by President Roosevelt partly in response to the urgings of President Quezon that the subject of advancing the date of Independence be reopened, a Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs, headed by Ambassador John Van Antwerp MacMurray, after a month touring the islands was by last week nearing the end of its job: to examine political and economic means of arranging the transition to complete Philippine...
...Intervention of the lower Federal courts in such labor disputes is a direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme law of the land on the subject matter covered by it. It empowers the Board to prevent any unfair labor practice . . . and expressly provides that 'this power shall be exclusive...
...with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen's icebound trail, full of shallows, swirling currents and subject to sudden storms has since been followed by only three or four ships...
...brothers arrived in Paris to make their literary fortune. Polished, aristocratic, neurasthenic, comfortably off, Edmond (27) and Jules (19) were an extraordinarily close corporation. They not only lived together in nearly continuous amity until death dissolved their partnership, they collaborated in all their writing, thought alike on nearly every subject and kept a joint diary. Little of their 30-odd collaborations-plays, novels, history, criticism-has survived into the 20th Century, but their Journals may be counted on to keep their memories green. Much of that racy record is still withheld. From the material now available Lewis Galantiere last week...
...justify these tributes. Latest try is Alfred H. Bill's Astrophel. Written in a half-scholarly, half-popular vein, it adds only the most cautious speculation to the known facts; its main contribution is a closely-woven background of the times, the author's enthusiasm for his subject...