Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public utilities is absolutely erroneous. Whether the professors were for or against private ownership never came to my notice. In the years of my connection as regent of Municipal University or its predecessor I never discussed with a member of faculty or student body or regents any public utility subject except in one instance, when I approved before all nine members of Board of Regents the subject of the Tennessee Valley Authority-housing program being discussed in a class where the general subject of housing was being studied. This action on my part was made necessary because one recent...
...sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...once. In "A Dedication" Warden Lawes soberly hoped that "those who are interested in a more rational approach to the problems engendered by delinquency will more clearly understand its many aspects. ... As a result of our efforts, I trust that the public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING . . . ALCATRAZ . . . JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything...
...have maturely reflected on the subject of your letter . . . and the more I have reflected the more I have become convinced that I could not, without manifest impropriety, make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary...
Most remarkable feature of Albert and the Belgians is its cool and friendly probing for the secret of Albert's personality. Nephew of Leopold II, whose exploitation of the Congo brought down international censure upon Belgium and whose dissolute private life outraged his subject,. Albert had not expected to rule. The death of his moody older brother put him in line for the throne. Albert possessed many of the characteristics of his grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times...