Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening of Oct. 29, 1919 one of Tammany's brightest young men made a speech in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. The subject of the speech was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who at that time packed so much punch in New York City politics that Tammany had kowtowed to him for over 16 years. The speaker was a young Governor named Alfred Emanuel Smith, serving his first term. Referring to Publisher Hearst, Governor Smith began: "I know he has not got a drop of good, clean, pure red blood in his whole body. And I know the color of his liver...
...first time in Japanese Army history all garrison and division commanders were summoned to Tokyo last week for a conference at the Imperial War Office. Subject: discipline. To the distress of Japanese who thought that in discipline at least their army topped all others, War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi issued the following order at the conference...
Dear Senator Schwellenbach: You will recall that on the occasion of my appearance last week before the Special Committee of the Senate appointed to investigate lobbying activities, of which you are a member, you questioned me at some length on the subject of whether my services had been billed to the member companies of the Associated Gas & Electric System at the amount received by me, or whether there had been a ''loading" by the so-called "Hopson companies" to cover overhead expenses, office rents etc. You had apparently been advised, that although there was no such "loading...
Last December, President Roosevelt announced that State Department studies of neutrality legislation might soon give him something to say on the subject. Four months later the State Department was rudely roused from its studies when Senators Gerald Nye, Bennett Clark & friends, fired with a passion for peace as a result of their investigation of the pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...convicted matricide, who indignantly refused President Pats's poison cup and was hanged. Second was Paul Voigemast, 24, a laborer convicted of raping and murdering a middle-aged schoolteacher. Thoughtful Paul Voigemast reserved decision, entered into a long correspondence with the faculty of Dorpat University on the subject of fast-working, pleasant poisons. Finally Paul Voigemast chose a cup of diluted potassium cyanide. Last week he was led to the death chamber, offered the cup. His hand took it steadily. Without expression, he drained it, shuddered, took in one long hissing breath, fell down dead, all within the required...