Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place two men in his sub-cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
...ridiculously small amount of additional revenue for the treasury. Upshot of the conference was a tacit agreement that the forthcoming tax bill would have to bear down harder not only upon the super-millionaires singled out by the President for special mention last month but also plain millionaires, sub-millionaires, sub-sub-millionaires and possibly on down the line to ordinary people with an income of more than $5,000 per year. Thus what President Roosevelt started as a tax program to encourage "a wide distribution of wealth" began to take shape as a full-bodied revenue bill which would...
...that the Treasury would supply facts and figures, recommend nothing. Thus his political position was perfect: his Treasury would be replenished by new taxes, the "Share-the-Wealthers" would be silenced and Congress and the critics of his tax plan would have to bear the odium when millions of sub-millionaires protested...
...triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered out to his firm's office in Persia. In her three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told her: "Madame, you sing like a bulbul." Under the impression that...
Last week the New Deal was to be seen standing with Carter Glass instead of Carter Glass against the New Deal. This remarkable conjunction occurred on an omnibus banking bill which the Virginian and a Senate Banking & Currency sub-committee spent more than two months working over. When the measure was unanimously reported to the Senate last week, all hands agreed that a neat job of compromise had been executed on the ticklish issue of centralizing the U. S. Banking System under White House (i. e. political) control. The Senate bill will centralize bank credit but not under direct political...