Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hooton said that it would be better for women of about 25 years to marry the "sub-adult males of 19 or 20." However, he added, "this might impose too much of a strain upon female continence and lead to trial marriages or male concubinage. Some would regard such a result as socially undesirable...
...elected President of the U.S. is one thing; to get real control of the U.S. Government is something else again. Bound up in a web of civil-service regulations and often forced to keep holdover Democrats as their right-hand men, Ike's Cabinet and sub-Cabinet members sometimes feel like Gulliver straining to break out of the bonds of the swarming Lilliputians...
Until Harry Truman (also by executive order) placed them under civil service, the jobs to which Ike's order will apply were held by "Schedule A men." In Washington bureaucratese, a "Schedule A man" is one who, while not of Cabinet or sub-Cabinet rank, has an important policy-making function. Unlike career civil servants, Schedule A officials may be hired & tired at their bosses' discretion...
Betty Ann Ellera '54 Moors; Sub Troas., Student Government Association; "Drumbeats and song"; Treas., Freshman Class; Community Service; Choral; Work Chairman, 55 Garden...
...then went to work for the Democratic National Committee, writing speeches under Cochran and Cohen. "I was a sort of a sub-ghost," he explains. "I wrote some things for Roosevelt, but none of them were flamboyant phrases that everyone remembers. In fact, I opposed the 'rendezvous with destiny' speech, because it seemed pretty corny...