Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juniors have been elected to the Undergraduate Athletic Council for 1939-40 and three others have been nominated to the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The nomination of the latter three is subject to the approval of the Corporation...
...fiscal 1939 last week entered its final month, the necessity for carrying Relief on into fiscal 1940 loomed nearer and larger to an Appropriations subcommittee of the House. In his last message on the subject (TIME, May 8), Franklin Roosevelt asked for $1,477,000,000 to carry an average of 2,000,000 workers on WPA (mostly manual labor) through the coming year. For PWA (heavy construction works) he asked nothing this time. In the weeks that have passed since that message, Mr. Roosevelt's hopes for an upturn in the capital goods industries have dwindled. Beside...
Promptly blowing Sir Stafford's brains out of the Party, the executive committee defended itself by attacking the Popular Front, largely quoting from Sir Stafford's own writing on the subject during the six years he too had been opposed. It forbade him to appear before the Southport Congress. His supporters began to backslide; two in the House of Commons backed down; another resigned from his paper; four were expelled before the Congress opened. But the Congress overruled the executive, let Sir Stafford speak. Soon the Red Squire joined the retreat at full stride, humbly asked for reinstatement...
Free Lances v. Professionals. All these estimates of the quality of Europe's military machines are subject to debate. In the debate there are in general two sides. Free-lance authorities such as bulky, unruffled Major Eliot, earnest, deep-eyed Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times...
Another major subject of debate is over the merits of present military equipment. Although the French have publicly claimed that Germany lacks artillery, most professionals believe that the Nazis, who started from scratch in 1933, have an edge in modern guns, superior to hoary French models. The Germans use a new 105 mm. howitzer while the French rock along with antiquated Seventy-fives. Some professionals also contend that French rifles are out-of-date, "tall as the Eiffel Tower," hence difficult to conceal, whereas the Germans use a short carbine that snuggles neatly into shallow trenches and shell holes; that...