Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon says modestly: 'It was easy. We just decided to do it and we did it.' " The 48-year-old subject of these eulogies is also something of a nine-day wonder to the G. 0. P. directorate as well, for he was the only Republican elected to an office higher than Representative in both the New Deal landslides of 1932 and 1934. On the record, Governor Landon might claim to be currently the Party's ablest vote-getter. Governor Landon's chief distinction, that of being a Great Economizer, has already been developed into...
...both occasions in sarcastic and, for him, spectacular fashion. Amid a loyal salvo of applause, he began: "This issue of America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject-the fiscal policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund...
Dispatches from Italian GHQ go by Government wireless to Rome, are subject to rigid censorship at both ends. Thus, while the reporters on the Italian side had plenty of news, censorship kept much of it bottled up. Reporters on the Ethiopian side faced an opposite situation. They had no censorship problem, but they also had practically no news. At Addis Ababa most of the reporters are crowded into the barnlike Imperial Hotel. Nights are so cold, sleeping bags are indispensable. Best description of life in Addis Ababa was sent last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Linton...
...problems of collection, in the connection of the arts to the present day, and some attempt to introduce students to the appreciation of art for its own sake (and not for its position in the development of culture alone), would make a start toward spreading interest in the subject, and ensuring that really cultured people were graduating from the college...
...student of international relations can afford to miss this volume of speeches, this document illumination a dark subject and a sore subject in contemporary history, this testimonial to the good faith of the most important power in eastern waters. Not even the most ardent anti Japanese trouble maker in this country can help but be convinced by ambassador Saito's disarming array of facts that Japan's only and chief desire is to attain and maintain the friendship and good will of the world towards...