Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that long, fateful summer's debate no subject was more fully argued, more carefully considered, than the manner of election and the term of office of the Chief Executive. To men who had suffered under monarchy the question of rotation in high office was desperately real, its solution a matter of counsel as grave as prayer. For three days in June, for five days in July, the delegates debated their jealousy of Executive power, a jealousy whose roots ran far back into the American past...
Kidnapping, said Nat J. L. Pieper, regional head of FBI, was vanishing from the U. S. Agent Pieper was addressing the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on the subject one day last week. A message interrupted Mr. Pieper's speech. It was a summons to suburban Hillsborough. There had been a startling kidnapping...
...second Forum of Executive Opinion (TIME, Sept. 2), FORTUNE chose the crucial subject of U. S. rearmament. The 15,000 top-flight U. S. business executives on the Forum's permanent panel were asked how they thought the defense program was getting along. By a large majority (73.5%) they replied: the defense program is not doing so well...
...League proposes to hold forums on the war, debates and speeches by men of differing views. At Harvard there has never been, and is not now, any lack of honest and penetrating discussion of this subject. Does the League feel that none of this quite serves its own purpose? The organizers of the League were anxious to avoid being branded at the start as a war group. This may remain their intention, but the League as a whole lost a good chance when it shouted down a resolution in favor of keeping American forces in this hemisphere...
...must be a matter of some regret to many students that the University, this year in particular, is amazingly deficient in courses dealing with Latin American relations. It's pretty sad commentary to find the only course offered to undergraduates in any way connected with this now-vital subject is History 75a, course in Mexican history...