Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in the difficulties at present confronting the anthracite industry, may I express my appreciation not only of the article in TIME, July 13, relative to the stolen coal matter, but also of the fairness with which you handled the subject. At the same time, may I call your attention to one error in that article -contrary to your statement, Stevens Coal Co. is operating the properties on which the accident in question occurred...
...never had a plan to organize the steel industry. They had instructions to inaugurate and conduct an organizing campaign . . . first given . . . in October 1934 and reaffirmed . . . in October 1935, the instructions were never executed. The Executive Council contented itself with heavy thinking on the subject, while in the meantime not a single organizer was sent into the steel industry." If Leader Lewis had chosen to round out his indictment of the Federation leadership's failure to organize U. S. steel workers, he could have harked back across the dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated...
...terms in the House. In 1933 President Roosevelt made her the first woman to represent the U. S. at a foreign capital. Speculation centered last week on the social difficulties of the bride's prospective position in Copenhagen as U. S. Minister and wife of a Danish subject. Unless it proposed to separate husband & wife at court dinners, the Danish Foreign Office would apparently have to choose between insulting the U. S. by seating its representative as Kammerjunkerinde, or insulting the envoys of other nations by seating the Kammerjunker above them. Minister Owen soon solved this diplomatic stickler...
...building of the Bryn Athyn Swedenborgian Cathedral was started by Raymond Pitcairn as a medieval craft centre. Lawrence Saint worked enthusiastically on its stained glass for eleven years, studied his subject more & more deeply, often wished he could completely approximate 13th Century windows by making his own glass instead of using the "stock" colors of commercial furnaces. Then one day he chanced to see in a yellowed newspaper clipping a photograph of the architect's model for the National Cathedral...
...Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska (TIME, July 1, 1935 et ante), Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that he could write it in an hour if he could borrow a typewriter. Editor Page "gave him a desk and some copy paper and some cigarets. He went into a brief trance and then started typing at a furious rate. In about 45 minutes . . . he was done. . . and gave...