Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Watts Bar and Gilbertsville on the Tennessee River, which had been stricken out by the House. Mr. Adams' efforts were reinforced by Ohio's tall, squinty Robert Alphonso Taft, the new Senator of noble name and nominal fame in current Presidential polls, who had chosen this subject for his maiden Senate speech. Mr. Taft's party floor leader, Oregon's McNary, asked a quorum call, to which 88 Senators responded. So the G. O. P.'s leading Senate freshman had a good audience as he began in a clear but colorless voice: "Mr. President...
...success in reflecting major social changes. This study of a minor one is no exception to the rule. The story of Cafe Society is the familiar one of a reporter (Fred MacMurray) who marries an heiress (Madeleine Carroll). It achieves the almost incredible distinction of libeling its subject...
...unprecedented recommendations (subject to CAA approval): That the airline competency ratings of Pilot Stead, Dispatchers Van Sceiver and Showalter be revoked, i.e., that they be fired...
...Children's Crusade might be the subject for a fine work of imaginative realism. Our Lives Have Just Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...
Wesleyan University has invited all Harvard students to attend its annual Parley on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. The subject will be "American Foreign Policy" and many authorities will speak, among them Senator Nye, Adolph A. Berle, Jr. '12, assistant, Secretary of State, and Nathaniel Peffer, authority on the Far East. Wesleyan will arrange for accommodations and meals at its own expense...