Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Naval Treaty. The special session of the Senate he had called against the advice of Republican leaders at the Capitol was not speeding the instrument toward ratification as swiftly and smoothly as he had anticipated. Senators opposing the Treaty had jockeyed the Senate into requesting him to submit confidential documents relative to its negotiation and, when he refused, the opposition brought forth an offensive reservation to the Pact. While no open filibuster yet existed, it became plain to the President that the Treaty would not be disposed of in ten days as he had hoped...
...observers wondered how much the Simon Commission had been influenced by St. Gandhi's spectacular campaign for independence (TIME, Jan. 6, et seq.). They found Sir John's own characteristic answer in his last section-section 369 of Part Twelve, the one ending, "All of which we submit for Your Majesty's gracious consideration." It opens magnificently thus...
...down, the Department of Commerce last week announced that, beginning July 1, it would test and certificate parachutes as well as planes. With new types of parachutes coming on the market in rapid succession, parachute accidents have been increasing. To obtain certificates of approval, manufacturers will not have to submit each & every 'chute to inspection, but one of each type offered for sale. Minimum test requirements...
...third major factor has to do with the college. The tendency has been to submit the Freshman class to the futile efforts of the poorest instructors in the college faculty. An effort is being made to relieve this situation and the proposal is to improve the quality of the instruction and at the same time draw the Freshman advisers from those teachers with whom the students have immediate contact. Such a change would be highly advisable in view of the present system by which a student coming from a good preparatory school is submitted to men of distinctly inferior ability...
...home of the brave. Some will point, of course, to Eugene O'Neill as undisputably superior to either of the gentlement here considered, but then, I can point to others (we'll not bother to name them) who are vastly inferior to Messrs Sherwood and Howard. In short, I submit that these two playwrights may be expected to display the faults and merits (if any) characteristic of the writing that is being done for the stage today...