Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's eleven executive orders affected 58 bureaus, boards, commissions and departments. Fifteen minor independent agencies were to be scrapped. Four new sub-Cabinet jobs were to be created. Declared President Hoover: "I have made no estimate of the extent of the economies which will eventually result from this re-organization program...
Salant recently resigned his former position so as to be able to serve as the chairman of the Economics Committee, one of the organization's sub--committees. Both Salant and Hoffman are Harvard representatives on the Executive Committee, and have figured actively in the work of the organization...
...love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes the story uncanny...
...President starts to build his administration from the top down by getting ten good men and true for his Cabinet. These first-rank appointees then help him fill up the lower grades in their respective departments. Next to be found are the 32 members of the Sub-Cabinet ranging from the Undersecretary of State to the Second Assistant Secretary of Labor. A clean sweep in the foreign service requires 15 new Ambassadors. 42 new Ministers. A new President must pick & choose until he gets men to serve him as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Commissioner of Customs, Comptroller of the Currency...
With $1,000,000 pledged in advance, Banker Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman for the second year of New York City's Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, formally opened its $15,000,000 drive. His business & professional sub-committees working smoothly. Chairman Gibson went home to his Long Island estate, rode out on a foxhunt, collided with a hanging tree branch. Blood streaming down his face, he hurried to a physician, had the wound stitched up, finished the hunt...