Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sub-basement of Washington's old House Office Building, a tall greying man with intense eyes and a lean, unsmiling face prayed for drought. Edward Page Gaston, brother of anti-cigaret Crusader Lucy Page Gaston, hoped that World War II would bring Prohibition...
...midget submarines destroyed at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy found the other half of its two-man crew still tightly wedged in the ship's bowels. Unable to scoop it out conveniently, the Navy sliced a 15-foot after-section from the core of the sub and, with full Naval honors, laid the makeshift coffin to rest in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard...
Mahatma Gandhi, 72, last week resigned the leadership of his Indian National Congress 'party. With the roar of Axis guns growing louder in their ears, many of Gandhi's sub-leaders could no longer follow his ways of non-violent resistance. Most of them are babus (educated men) who want political careers in an independent (or dominion-status) India and cannot imagine getting them from Adolf Hitler or Emperor Hirohito. The Mahatma would no longer try to lead men who would not follow. Rather than step from his principles, the ascetic little lawyer stepped from his leadership...
...addition, one sub-committee under the chairmanship of Thomas Matters '43 will sell defense bonds and stamps. The stamps will probably be sold through the newsboys in the Houses and Freshman Halls...
...free hours per week whether it be a cautious one or an enthusiastic twenty. The machinery for putting a volunteer in a useful activity is relatively simple. Every time Dean Chauncey's office receives a call for volunteers, emergency or otherwise, the appeal will go straight to the sub-committee concerned. From there it goes out to the students who have indicated their desire to do the particular kind of work. By this division of labor the volunteer quota for any one call should be filled inside of thirty minutes...