Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness was wiry, bespectacled Ignatius D. Taubeneck, history teacher in the Bronxville (N.Y.) High School, who had turned up before a Senate appropriations sub-committee to present an economy petition signed by 2,000 citizens of suburban Westchester County, which borders New York City. Ex-Mayor Frederick C. McLaughlin of White Plains took it from there. Said McLaughlin...
...payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
When the bill reached a sub-committee of the Senate, however, letters and a petition signed by 1200 Oklahoma University students helped to kill the measure. The Senate group shelved it and substituted a milder pledge of loyalty to the United States government
...Cadets have been sporadically dangerous this year, winning only one EIBL game in five starts. They often outhit their opponents but their fielding has been sub-par. Every once in a while, however, they will explode for a large number of runs. They beat Yale, 13 to 4, and scored nine against Dartmouth and 10, 13, and 11 in three other games. Coach Paul Amen's soldiers forced Cornell and the Brooklyn Dodgers into extra innings before dropping one-run decisions...
...sub-title of this book is only fifty percent accurate. It says that Briton Hadden was the co-founder of 'Time.' And that is true. It also says that the book is a biography. And this assertion is wildly misleading and ought to be chopped up a syllable at a time...