Word: beholden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when higher education is being more widely spread among the masses of the population than ever before, the advantages that can be got from college training, especially from a private institution that is not beholden to any governmental body for its continuance, may not appear on the surface of things. But in coming to Harvard every Freshman is forging an unrivalled opportunity to equip himself for life in the modern world. This opportunity may be gained from contact with books in the University libraries, with the many professors and tutors with whom he will associate, and with...
...Both Senators had been bulwarks of the New Deal even unto the last ditch of the Court Plan. But Sherman Minton had not reached the Senate until the New Deal was two years old. Besides, the droll McNutt machine had put Sherman Minton into office while Hugo Black was beholden to no machine except his own, grounded in the Alabama backwoods whence he sprang. His mind made up, Franklin Roosevelt wrote in longhand his long-awaited message to the Senate last week: "I nominate Hugo L. Black of Alabama to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
Young Henry Caridius, having failed as a lawyer in the great city of Megapolis, is running for Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat...
...require all bank officers to report to their boards of directors loans above a specified minimum which they obtain from any source, so that a directorate will know to whom its officers are beholden...
Advocated reduction of immigration quotas by 90%, and the immediate deportation of aliens "directly or indirectly beholden to the Third Internationale...