Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover mustered his sub-Cabinet of 30 members up to full strength by appointing a new Assistant Secretary of State, a new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.* To James Grafton Rogers of Denver, Col., went the job of diplomacy. To Arthur Atwood Ballantine of New York City went the job of finance. Like all assistants to full-fledged Secretaries they were primed to work hard and get small public credit for their labors...
...larger hand in creating the Federal Reserve Board with its twelve district banks than little, sharp-beaked Congressman Carter Glass of Virginia. Today Senator Carter Glass heads the sub-committee conducting this broad inquiry. Rarely is it thus given to a member of Congress to review his legislative handiwork after 17 years...
...Sub-Zero. All North China was colder last week than in any winter since 1893. Thermometers said 35°F. below zero in Harbin, Manchuria. Ill-clad, scant-nourished Chinafolk died by hundreds in cities, by dozens in towns...
Chang. Back to Mukden, his capital city in sub-zero Manchuria, the young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang did not go last week. He has been at Nanking in central China, conferring with another "little general," President Chiang Kaishek...
...many offers were more flattering to her figure than honorable to her sex. She was willing to marry Walter, the Jewish bank clerk, but something respectable in him drove him elsewhere. Circumstances took Ray to Manhattan. There she re-encountered Walter, less clerkly, more respectable. They drifted into a sub-rosa apartment, and she became the perfect mistress, he the perfect banker. Legally unhallowed years brought out the sacrificial-maternal in Ray, the paunchy ego in Walter. When he died respectably in the arms of his wife, he had made no allowance for faithful Ray. Her old beau Kurt...