Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After months of bellywash on the subject, we at last get a good close-up view of who Alfred Renton Bridges is, and why. Your "C.I.O. To Sea" story struck me as one of the most objective and at the same time interesting pieces of reporting in a long while...
...pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas boiled over on the subject of the Texas Centennial. Wrote he from Mount Rushmore, S. D., where he is finishing his colossal head of Lincoln: "What is it in Texas that fights and resists any plan to deal with her history . . . with the nobility, honesty and dignity that befit a great people...
Recently they wrote 40 speeches for inarticulate businessmen who wanted to sound off against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan. Inflation was another gold-mine subject for Ghostwriters Bureau. When Messrs. Baer & Woods first set up shop, businessmen were chary about hiring their services, usually conducted negotiations from home or on private stationery. Now Business has accepted ghostwriting as established practice, so long as names of clients are not made public. For the benefit of the more fastidious of these, Baer & Woods describe themselves as "clarificators...
...child (the only survivor of seven) "he tended towards consumption and dropsy, was subject to violent fluctuations of temperature, suffered a contraction of the nerves, and had a fistula in one eye." Able at 12 to recite Pope's Homer and the Arabian Nights, he was soon so deep in Roman history that he resented mealtime, could not go to sleep for thinking about discrepant history dates. Sent to Oxford as a gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling...
...nation's law schools and bar associations dropped a novel legal announcement last week. Distinguished, aging Harvard Law School Professors Joseph Henry Beale (Conflict of Laws) and Samuel Williston (Contracts) had recorded significant law lectures before the sound camera. In each film as introducer of the subject and lecturer appears Harvard Law School's newsworthy Professor Felix Frankfurter (Administrative Law), Vienna-born intimate of President Roosevelt, sponsor of such New Deal legalights as SEChairman James McCauley Landis, 37, who returns to Cambridge as Harvard's law dean in September. Professor Beale's subject is "Jurisdiction...