Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order of Chancellor Hitler the S. A. boys were to turn in their uniforms July 1 and take a month's vacation. Already on vacation was Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm at his rustic snuggery near Munich. But in Berlin his sub-comrades kept pestering the Chancellor with demands that he dissolve the rival Stahl helm. Despite the fact that Storm Troopers hooted at Stahlhelm Leader Seldte and stoned his bodyguards a few weeks ago the Storm Troopers based their demand on the obscure stabbing of one of their district leaders by a Stahlhelm official in Pomerania...
Long before the revolution was a fact, Gregor and many of his mates, fed up with the war, had listened to much sub versive talk. But Cossacks knew them selves to be the flower of the army, despised the peasants, cared little for the rest of Russia. Torn between the conflicting commands of Kerensky. Kornilov and the Bolsheviks. Gregor did not know what to do with his loyalty. When his regiment broke up he joined the Red Guards, but shooting down men of his own blood went I against his grain. He took the excuse of a furlough for wounds...
Last week a sub-committee of the House Military Affairs Committee after secret hearings, called upon Secretary of War Dern to oust General Foulois for "dishonesty . . . gross misconduct ... inefficiency . . . inaccuracy . . . unreliability . . . incompetency . . . mismanagement.'' Prime charges: ¶He said he was "quite certain" his men could fly the mail, following cancellation of private contracts. ¶He "told a lie" to the committee, saying that Army mail pilots had from 30 to 60 hours night flying experience, whereas some who crashed had as little as 8 hours. ¶He persistently violated the law in buying planes by direct negotiation instead...
...father to intervene as soon as possible if anything can be done. See you at the races, I hope. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., member of Harvard's Freshman crew, sent that telegram last week to White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President saw the message he sent Sub-Secretary Early to the War Department, arranged that Yale Oarsman Livingston should be allowed furlough from camp in order to row. Father Franklin will watch Son Franklin row on the Thames next week...
...attack planes. To pay for its new craft the Air Corps will use PWA funds and Congressional appropriations. Call for bids came from Assistant Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, who last week was absolved of all guilt in connection with Army aircraft purchases by a House Military Affairs sub-committee which investigated Air Corps procurement methods. The subcommittee, in its report, charged Air Corps Chief Benjamin D. ("Benny") Foulois with having acted "in clear violation of the law" by favoring negotiated contracts instead of competitive bidding...