Word: subs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant reader of TIME, I have often spoken of the accuracy with which matters are reported in this wonderful weekly. You can imagine my surprise when I saw the issue of March 2, and under the Congress, sub-topic "Green Pastures," read of my having made my maiden speech in the House, Friday Feb 21 during the debate on the Soil Erosion Bill This statement is most inaccurate. My maiden speech was made on the Floor of the House April 15, 1935, while the House was considering the Social Security measure...
Franklin Roosevelt's sub-Cabinet is a political caravansary through whose portals bright young men are continually entering and departing. Last week's comings & goings in the sub-Cabinet...
...That's a lie!" yelled Assistant Director Rex Martin of the Bureau of Air Commerce, jumping to his feet one afternoon last week, his face tomato-red, before a sub-committee of the Senate Commerce Committee which is currently trying to determine the present safety conditions of U. S. commercial aviation. Along with Director Eugene Vidal and many another official, he had just heard a onetime subordinate bring to a gaudy climax five days of virtually unanimous condemnation of the Bureau of Air Commerce...
...this expansion had some notable effects. At one time the company and its subsidiaries had outstanding no less than 35 different bond issues and 25 stock issues, the parent itself boasting two preferreds and three commons designated A, B and C. All the power properties were grouped in a sub-holding company called International Hydro-Electric. On a consolidated basis they represented two-thirds of International's total gross assets...
...interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week's war game newsworthy was the presence of the world's first Flying Flagship. A twin-motored Douglas DC2 transport, it is the first of three ordered by the Air Force at $85,000 apiece. Under the direction of Major General Frank...