Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tears" in TIME, June 28 opens a subject with only one phase presented. Your readers are entitled to all the facts, and we believe the following information will be helpful to them...
...recorded as against the Bill. With supreme assurance the Vice President dismissed the demand by shouting back: "The Senator's statement will go in the Record as sufficient proof that he is recorded against it. . . . All Senators can extend their remarks in the Record on the subject." A moment later the Senate recessed for the week end, and at 2:26 p.m., just 59 minutes after Senator McCarran had taken the floor, the job the Senate has been trying to do some how since last February was finally, force fully and completely done...
...Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned and accepted a pension which in 1932 was cut in half as an economy measure, the Supreme Court Retirement Act was passed this year to give elderly justices a better reason for quitting. It provides that they may retire (i.e., go on inactive duty, subject to call if needed) thereby continuing in office in the sense that their pay may not be diminished. How, asked Mr. Borah, if Justice Van Devanter, who retired two months ago, is continuing in office can there be a vacancy on the bench...
...worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation of the Van Sweringen railway system. By the time the railroad investigation got back on the track, the campaign books had taken up the better part of three days' hearings, made most of their headlines...
...search of the happiest subject, contemporary British novelists seldom look in their own industrial back yard, prefer instead when tired of the front-lawn and front-street side of English life to search in some other part of the world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic...