Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, June 24], to the annual recurrence of infantile paralysis your statement regarding North Carolina would permit of a literal interpretation that the disease was State-wide in its coverage. To citizens of western North Carolina this statement, as well as like items in the daily press, is the subject of much concern. Were it true?we'd take it and like it. But, since it so happens that the number of cases of infantile paralysis in this area is below the average, and there are absolutely no indications of a spread, it would appear only right that you follow...
...understand that questions of the Constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen. . . . Manifestly, no one is in apposition to give assurance that the proposed act will withstand Constitutional tests, for the simple fact that you can get not ten but a thousand different legal opinions on the subject. But the situation is so urgent and the benefits of the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill, leaving to the courts, in an, orderly fashion, the ultimate question of Constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful...
...only Laborites and Liberals but also Conservative henchmen of the Prime Minister broke away to heap their wrath at popular Stanley Baldwin's latest bumble upon unpopular Ramsay MacDonald's luckless son Malcolm. Stormed Conservative M.P. Sir Arnold Wilson: "Was His Majesty's pleasure on this subject ascertained...
...forget that he is now Home Secretary, having been demoted from Foreign Secretary. Sir John made his debut in Home Affairs on the issue of chain letters, a racket now spreading from the U. S. throughout Great Britain. Famed for his ability to speak learnedly on any subject without committing himself to either side, the Home Secretary toyed with the question whether in Great Britain chain letters are legal or illegal. "I may observe," said the Great Lawyer, "that certain types of snowball schemes, to which chain letters bear some resemblance, have been held by courts to be illegal lotteries...
...Auto published a letter by Didier Poulain, its tennis expert, denouncing famed Jean Borotra for "letting France down" by not playing singles on France's Davis Cup team. Jean Borotra promptly replied with a letter denouncing Sportswriter Poulain. Last week, the Borotra v. Poulain controversy became a subject of international excitement when Sportswriter Poulain sent Tennist Borotra a challenge to a duel which Tennist Borotra, at Wimbledon for the 55th All-England Championships, angrily announced that he would accept. In Paris three days later, the seconds of both combatants put their heads together diplomatically, announced that...