Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judicially stretching his indignation over the whole subject of legislative investigations, Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out that investigating committees act as both prosecutor and judge; put men on trial with no advance knowledge of the charges against them, no right to be represented by counsel, to call their own wit nesses or to cross-examine their accusers; operate with no procedure, no rules of evidence, no court of appeal, no jury ex cept the newspaper-reading public. "What should be proposed," boomed he, "is that Legislatures cease to regard themselves above the law, above the rules of equity and justice...
...grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet-U. S. situation, bleated in Moscow: "The question of Communist propaganda is a stale subject about which there should be no further discussion...
Premier Okada, who by a miracle also escaped assassination by soldiers, continued to hold office ad interim last week while search was conducted for a new Premier & Cabinet. In Japan this is anything but a straightforward process. A subject is commissioned by the Son of Heaven to form a Cabinet, but he cannot do so and become Premier unless he successfully supplicates an Army officer to deign to act as War Minister and a Navy officer to deign to become Naval Minister in his Cabinet...
Some Climax stockholders must have been completely mystified by the fact that total assets increased during the year from less than $8,000,000 to more than $79,000,000. Furthermore, the entire increase was accounted for in an item called "Discovered Increment." Little light was shed on the subject by a footnote explaining that "Discovered Increment" had been revalued by application of the "Hoskold Formula." What happened was that Climax simply wrote up its ore reserves by some $70,000,000. Formerly carried at what amounted to a nominal $3,600,000, the Climax reserves are by all odds...
Professor Ralph P. Boas of Wheaton College will be the toastmaster at the luncheon meeting which will follow at 1 o'clock. After dinner a symposium on the subject: "Should English teachers welcome the filming of standard novels and plays as an aid to the appreciation of English literature?" is to be held; the points of view of the student, the teacher and the public will be presented...