Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent most of his term in office as acting Secretary during William Woodin's illness. Because he never saw eye to eye with the President on money matters, he was retired, unthanked, last November. Second was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Undersecretary in name only, who was promptly put in command of the department when Secretary Woodin formally resigned. Third was Earle Bailie, partner in the Manhattan banking house of J. & W. Seligman, who held the job but not the title, because the Senate objected to his Wall Street background...
...Dillinger and five of his henchmen, with three women, had rendezvoused in a roadhouse called Little Bohemia. Federal officers advanced on it in the night. Two big collies bayed a warning to its inmates. The Federals rushed forward. Three strangers, driving away in a car, failed to stop on command. Federal guns blazed. One man fell dead, two wounded, but none of them was Dillinger. From Little Bohemia came a machine gun volley and, behind it. Dillinger & gang made their getaway through a back window. Later one Federal agent crossed their trail and was shot dead. After that the north...
Representative Doughton's able second in command who sat beside him last week in conference was Sam Hill of Washington. Representative Hill has the appearance and manners not of a farmer from North Carolina but of a spruce businessman. If, as rumored, Mr. Doughton retires from Congress to take a seat on the Tariff Commission, Representative Hill will succeed to his important job. The rumor, however, is probably to be credited to Mr. Hill, who is well aware how committee chairmen may be puffed up and out of their jobs...
Last week the Senate Committee investigation of the airmail passed into the "minority phase" with Senator Austin, Vermont Republican, in command. Called to the witness stand was big, jovial, double-chinned First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes who testified that he had been "proud" of the service under private contractors, that cancellation had been actively pushed by lobbyists who "came in hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts...
...Harvard student who has obtained his A.B. with honors. For this reason an A.M. from Harvard is losing the importance it should have in academic circles. By requiring a general examination and a thesis the department granting the degree can be sure that the candidate has a satisfactory command of his field. The political science department has waived these requirements, however, for men who have received a degree with honors from Harvard College since such men have already passed a general examination and presented a thesis. Students coming from other universities must prove their fitness for the graduate degree...