Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Japan played the soft music for Quezon's dips and turns, last week it was apparent that Quezon had begun to dance still more exotic steps. Imperious boss of the Islands but still subject to their U. S.-made laws, Quezon has proposed an amendment to the Tydings-McDuffie Act which would permit him to run for a second term as President of the Commonwealth, then let a chosen subordinate hold the office until he can run again in 1945 and become the first President of the new sovereign State. The Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite...
...country scuttled two official Nazis, bound for Japan: Dr. Friedrich Ried, assistant German consul in New York City, subject of State Department inquiry, and Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, German trade counselor to the U. S., indignant over being made an object of suspicion...
...Greater Ordeals." Winston Churchill's confident words contained no promise of a cessation of German air raids on England. A more authoritative voice spoke on that subject, the voice of handsome, immaculate Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair. Sir Archibald is seldom heard in Parliament. One reason is that, on his feet, he stammers. Yet this 49-year-old Scottish baronet, who owns 100,000 acres in Caithness, lives in Thurso Castle and rose to the top in Parliament as a diligent, sincere, fighting Liberal, is a nailer for work, a respected soldier, and at a radio microphone none...
Scotsman Ogilvy, born in Britain, then and now a British subject, served the U. S. as a soldier in the Spanish-American War, but never got beyond Jacksonville, Fla. He served Britain as a captain of Brabant's Horse in the Boer War and won the Distinguished Service Order. At 53 he served Britain again in World War I (1914-15) as a lieutenant of Scottish Horse...
Proving ground for Bishop Sheil's plan has been Chicago's smelly, run-down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive...