Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sub rosa expenditures by France and Germany, if each be found to have spent as much as the other charged, would pay a good part of Europe's War Debt. Neutral guessers figured the monster slush-funds around $50,000,000. Thus each ballot cost perhaps...
...Petrified Forest (by Robert Sherwood; Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Arthur Hopkins, producers). When, in the first 30 minutes of a show, four men appear carrying sub-machineguns, a spectator may be pretty sure that something fairly exciting is going to happen. When, 30 minutes before the curtain is to be rung down, the hero makes an arrangement with one of the gunmen to kill him before they leave, a spectator may be forgiven for twisting his program completely out of shape...
Although now resident in Dunster House, Lewis was at one time a member of the Leverett House Committee. He was on the board of the Lampoon as Narthex, and in his Freshman year was sub-Art Chairman of the Red Book...
Relief. When the sub-committee on relief reported its plank, it was evident how far the 90 tycoons had traveled. Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.* Yet last week. knowing the dole to be far cheaper than made work, their sub-committee plumped solidly for the dole. But such straightforward language would never do. President Roosevelt feels now about the dole as the tycoons felt three years ago, favors work relief as a means of preserving morale among...
Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head, laughed heartily, declared that he had them all intrigued about what was coming. Then he recited more names?Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials?and again grinned. Was it not a queer combination of notables? The puzzled correspondents agreed that it was. That group, the President explained, was going to meet that very afternoon to devise ways; means of taking profits...