Word: supplanting
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...President, Franklin Roosevelt tossed philosophy overboard, faced facts. His choice lay between direct Federal relief and mass starvation accompanied by almost inevitable rebellion. Promptly- through CWA, PWA, CCC, FERA-he began pouring public millions into private pockets. As the Government rushed in to support and finally almost supplant private charity, solvent citizens took notice. Since they were paying the Federal relief bill through taxation, they began to doubt the practical necessity of any longer subscribing to private charities. In 1932, 120 cities contributed $57,800,000 to private charities. Last year the same cities contributed...
...Templeton, during her lone scene in the first act, holds majestic sway over all the proceedings. Odette Myrtil, in the part of the violently self-assertive star customer of Madame Roberta's couturier establishment, handles admirably her difficult task in replacing Lyda Robert. It is no easy trick to supplant the dynamic, hip-swinging Lyda in a typically Roberti role, but Odette Myrtil is really all that can be desired short of the genuine Miss Roberti herself. Tamara, in the role of Stephanie, the successor to Madame Roberta as the guiding light of the dressmaking business and the eventual heroine...
...Deal was trying to muzzle the Press. Last week the blind Senator, egged on by Tory publishers, produced a new and startling charge: The Administration not only planned to censor the Associated Press, United Press and Hearst news services, but to start its own official press service to supplant them, after the fashion of Soviet Russia's Tass...
...brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes?street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear? the grandes dames considered the little dressmaker around the corner good enough. But after the War there was little demand for expensive robes-de-style and no money to pay for them. So the couturiers set out to supplant the little seamstress around the corner by designing all women's clothes, even down to the negligee. These designs, simple, practical, not too expensive, brought the haute couture down from the ballroom to the tennis court...
President Lowell will be the guest speaker at the Winthrop House annual Senior Dinner, which will be held on Thursday in the Junior Common Room at 7 o'clock. The dinner is a formal affair, but will not supplant the regular House dinner, which will be held in the Dining Room at the regular time. John M. Lockwood '34, chairman of the House Committee, will preside. It is expected that Dr. Lowell's talk will be strictly informal...