Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until last week there...
...neglected subject of this neglected industry received last week such attention as it has long deserved when FORTUNE published (for the third time in its history) a whole issue devoted to one subject-U. S. Shipping. Virtually a 104,000-word book, this September issue of FORTUNE was the first thorough investigation of "an entirely new principle which has been injected into U. S. business on a gigantic scale . . . the principle of direct subsidy." It was described by Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the Maritime Commission, which will administer the subsidy, as "the first concise, comprehensive and colorful presentation...
...letters were running about 50-50 on the subject when R. W. Alston whose inquiring mind had profited by the August bank holiday offered a new idea: "Recently I visited the seaside and was flattered to find myself the object of attentive curiosity until I realized that the ladies who met me with arched eyebrows were not surprised or delighted, but merely plucked and therefore incapable of any other expression...
Having his head full of many other things, including a sewage disposal plant on the Potomac, Secretary Ickes had his publicity-wise Personal Assistant Harry Slattery write this refusal to Paleobotanist Wieland: ". . . The subject of fossil cycads does not have a broad appeal. . . . The story can be effectively told by a display which, for the present at least, can be housed in the administration building at Wind Cave National Monument, 22 miles distant...
...great U. S. turf family, typifies Saratoga's rich and formidable August colony-this seems a piece of gross misdoing. In the breakfast room of the gargantuan old Grand Union Hotel* last week he rose to address the convened National Association of State Racing Commissioners on this subject...