Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doones. Lindsay Warren won his bill's crucial battle on the House floor with one brief, effective literary allusion. When Representative Kleberg of Texas tried to require that the President's reorganization be approved by a positive vote of Congress (rather than subject to a negative veto), Mr. Warren asked his colleagues: "Have you forgotten the story of Lorna Doone...
...principal effect in Britain of Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...Cycle (chemicals, printing, utilities, metallurgy); 3) Service-producing Activities (credit and insurance, banking, professions, the arts, sea and air transport, communication). All the corporations compose a National Council of Corporations which, acting through its central committee has in the past legislated on questions of labor and production. Its decisions-subject to the Dictator's veto-become...
...specific demands on France, as expected, but merely repeated many a Mussolini bromide: the axis is strong, the democracies are wrong, the Mediterranean is Italy's sphere of influence, Italy's biggest wish is peace and biggest need is more ships, cannon and airplanes. Specifically on the subject of Mediterranean conflicts with the French, he said openly that the next move was France...
...highly developed faculty for showmanship. Odd thing about Dali is that these qualities are apparently all of a piece with his art, yet his art has importance. Every Dali show since his first in Paris ten years ago has interested critics because 1) the art of painting needs fresh subject matter; 2) psychoanalysis has focused attention on dreams; 3) Dali seems able to recreate their haunting confusion, scale and illumination...