Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department as an Assistant Secretary on March 4, he was widely acclaimed as President Roosevelt's closest, most trusted economic adviser, the head Brain Truster who had shaped his winning campaign, a mighty power in the New Deal. When after six months he stepped out of the sub-Cabinet last week, the country hardly needed to be told...
...Moley discovered that his conspicuousness had produced a sour public effect. No longer was he welcomed at the President's bedside before breakfast. The spotlight had shifted to General Johnson and NRA, leaving Dr. Moley no more important as an active adviser than a dozen other sub-Cabinet officials. When Secretary Hull got back from London all primed to resign, President Roosevelt pacified him by transferring Assistant Secretary Moley to the Department of Justice to conduct a crime survey. As the State Department was obviously not big enough for both men, the President decided Dr. Moley was the least...
...American Federation of Labor's Edward Francis McGrady as her No. 1 assistant. When Miss Perkins was appointed, the A. F. of L. was outraged because she had no union card. Jim Farley tried to smooth the A. F. of L. down by putting Mr. McGrady into the sub-Cabinet. But Madam Secretary Perkins, no politician, balked, refused to have him or any other Farley candidate. Months passed during which she met Mr. McGrady repeatedly at NRA headquarters where he held a high labor job under General Johnson. The more she saw of him, the better she liked...
Adolf Hitler's electioneering bark that when he became Dictator "Heads will roll in the sand!" ended factually in the sharp-bitten order of Sub-Dictator Hermann Wilhelm Goring to revive the medieval headsman's axe and chopping block in executing criminals duly condemned by Prussian courts to Death (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week three heads rolled off bloody blocks in the courtyards of Berlin prisons and a prominent Nazi official furnished correspondents with beheading facts...
...Their presence was once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists grew doubtful when they could find no monkey fossils in Gibraltar's honeycomb of caves. Natives explained that easily: the apes had a secret sub-Mediterranean tunnel by which they returned to Africa to die. Scientists decided that the apes must have been imported by Romans or Moors...