Word: gronouski
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...must to all new Cabinet mem bers, a press conference came last week to Postmaster General John Gronouski. He showed himself to be an amiable fellow with a ready wit. Asked what he thought of third-class mail, he replied: "It doesn't send me most of the time." Gronouski, it turned out, was just trying to be funny, but soon the Post Office Department was swamped with protests. Gronouski was taken into a huddle by his public relations adviser, and his sense of humor has now been stamped HANDLE WITH CARE...
Wisconsin Tax Commissioner John A. Gronouski, 43, didn't know a ZIP code from a postal zone. Habitually, he forgot to mail his wife's letters, carried them in his pockets for weeks. His most prolonged contact with the mail service was in 1960, when he "licked a lot of stamps" for John Kennedy in the Wisconsin primary. But last week the President appointed Gronouski his new Postmaster General to replace J. Edward...
Polish or not, Gronouski performed ably as Wisconsin's tax commissioner for the past four years, helped revamp the state's whole revenue system. A Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, he is an affable, pipe-smoking ex-college professor whose air of rumpled relaxation is deceiving. He is a driving administrator, has worked twelve to 16 hours a day himself, and expects his staff to do the same. He is a militant Democrat who drew constant fire from Wisconsin papers for his partisanship while tax commissioner-a nonelective office. But even state Republicans have grudging...