Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...
...outrageously exaggerated were a startling surprise to the participators who witnessed an hitherto peaceful band of cops metamorphosed into almost brutal "arrest-hunters." But aside from this, the point that should be emphasized is the attitude of the immigration authorities toward the much mistreated Edith Berkman. Mrs. Tillinghast and Sub-Commissioner F. S. Abercrombie have tried to suppress knowledge of the fact that those in no way connected with Communist or Socialist organizations are active in Miss Berkman's case and they have played the whole affair up as a "Red Riot" to give it the stigma of radicalism...
Hunters. To expedite the investigation, Chairman Peter Norbeck, a onetime South Dakota well-digger, last week organized a sub-committee of five. Besides himself, Senator Norbeck appointed Republicans Couzens and Townsend, Democrats Fletcher and Glass. Conspicuously omitted was President Hoover's good friend Senator Walcott of Connecticut, who started the bear hunt. Washington thought he had tried to soft-pedal the inquiry after trapping more Republicans than Democrats in bear's clothing. Four special investigators and an accounting firm were to be hired. Representative La Guardia's explosive testimony was the subcommittee's first move to broaden the hunt...
Robbins lives in Washington, D. C., and prepared for Harvard at Groton. He was sub-chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee and played on the Freshman soccer team last year. Stites is from Narberth, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the Montgomery School. He has been a member of the Flying Club...
...competition for positions on the Editorial Board under the Chairmanship of D. G. Anderson '35 was especially keen, attracting 40 candidates. A sub-Chairman, the high standing man in each contest, will be announced at a meeting of the entire Red Book Board in the near future...