Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon...
...monarch and Subject MacDonald can be said to owe each other much. Warm friends, they took their time, a whole hour of tea. Then the Prime Minister kissed hands and was Prime Minister no more. Driving away down the Mall, he passed Stanley Baldwin driving toward the Palace, and silk hat was gravely raised to silk hat. Mr. Baldwin, seated far back in the depths of his Daimler, was unnoticed by passers-by until he alighted to step on the red carpet of Buckingham Palace. In a hurry, he kissed hands and became Prime Minister about four minutes after...
...political, economic, and social life of the country and foreign relations. Each unit is developed from the early period to the present with only a few necessary tie-ins with the other units. The author's claim that such organization helps the younger student to better grasp the subject without the usual confusion which a purely chronological story presents. But for our purpose, its great value is in dividing problems in a way which will help as a handy reference in writing papers...
...great victory over the soft-coal mineowners, only to find later that, like the victorious Allies of 1918, he had lost more than he had won. For the scale of wages he imposed after the strike ruined that portion of the coal industry that was subject to them and the ruin of the industry ruined the union almost beyond repair...
...Birmingham Medical College. After that College had become the postgraduate department of the University of Alabama, Dr. McLester became professor of medicine there. In passing he investigated and became a foremost authority on nutrition and diet in health and disease. "Nutrition and the Future of Man" is the subject of his presidential address next week...