Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that provided for an appropriation of $50,000,000 annually for ten years to finance farmers seeking to purchase farms they now operate for absentee owners. Day before suffering their first major legislative setback in the present Congress, President Roosevelt, who had previously made the farm tenancy problem the subject of a special message, made a personal plea for retention of the section before members of the House Committee at a White House conference...
...surging Sit-Down. Governors White of Mississippi, worried about a pajama factory sitdown, and Allred of Texas, worried about the C. I. O. oil drive starting this week, announced that they would oppose Sit-Downs with all the force at their command. With many a State legislature discussing the subject, Vermont's became the first to pass a law specifically outlawing the Sit-Down-which it defined as occupation of property by three or more persons without the owner's consent...
...mediation and adjustment. Accepted by most railroaders without legal quibble, it has helped make the railway industry a national model of pacific labor relations. But the same reason that it has rarely been challenged in court-the fact that railways are indisputably engaged in interstate commerce and hence subject to Congressional regulation-kept Supreme Court endorsement of it from being more than a shadowy clue to the Court's forthcoming decision on the Wagner Act. Well hedged by its qualifying clause was Mr. Justice Stone's remark: "The peaceable settlement of labor controversies, especially where they may seriously...
...Communism (No. 29) and on Nazi Germany (No. 30) issued last fortnight (TIME, March 29).* Last week Pius XI, with the pleased loquacity of a man who has come through a long illness, released encyclical No. 31, dated Easter Sunday and dealing with a familiar but still pressing subject, Mexico...
Last week Commissioner Douglas again journeyed to Manhattan to make a speech, this time to the well-heeled members of the Bond Club. Again he spoke his mind "unofficially" but with almost savage candor. Because his subject was broader, his suggestions more radical and, more important, because he is a likely candidate for the SEChairmanship after James McCauley Landis retires next summer, his Bond Club speech reverberated in every banking house in the land. For the 38-year-old onetime Yale law professor proposed nothing less than a complete remaking of the country's investment business. Said he: "Today...