Word: substitutees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the provision for a single civil service administrator to replace the present commission was one of the questionable virtues of the now deceased reorganization bill, the extension of the merit system "upward, outward, and downward" was widely hailed as a reform of revolutionary character, and its defeat was the...
Rejecting the Harvard Engineering Society's proposition that they substitute Sears Roebuck (advt.) vacuum cleaners for the traditional brooms, the Crimson curlers under the leadership of Caspar W. Berger are embarking on a series of strenuous secret practice sessions in an unused wing of Widener in preparation for Saturday, when...
Red Lowman and Dave Burt, the latter unbeaten in intercollegiate competition, will fight it out for the number one berth. Captain Alvah Sulloway, who captained the squash team this fall, and Hubert Hauck are much improved this year according to Cowles. Langdon Gilkey and Chester Legg will complete the team...
In the proposed Revenue Act of 1938, reported by the House Ways & Means Committee last fortnight, the undistributed profits tax was retained more in principle than in fact. But the principle is about as popular with businessmen as was the Stamp Act of 1765. Franklin Roosevelt in a strategic retreat...
In New York, the State Board of Regents last week appreciated the opinion of censors that it would be unfair to Actress Garbo to permit a caricatured re-issue of her 1927 silent film, Street of Sorrow, with score, dialogue and a substitute title. The objectionable title: I Vant To...