Word: pd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PD NORTHAMPTON MASS" it said. That didn't make any sense. Vag went on. "SORRY CAN'T COME FOR GAME MUST STAY WITH SICK MOTHER STOP SOME OTHER TIME," Vag read it carefully twice over, then crumpled it into a small ball and flipped it toward the wastebasket. It bounced off the rim, and sat smugly on the edge...
...well as with Pulitzer. He had also made the news columns of the P-D (and the opposition) in a way of which Pulitzer did not approve: he got involved in a drinking brawl. Last week the expected finally happened. After 25 years of writing editorials for the PD, 53-year-old Ralph Coghlan was transferred to Europe...
...Missouri, where a "separate but equal" law school has had its longest test, the powerful St. Louis Post-Dispatch pronounced it a "mistake." Said the PD: it costs only $228 a year to educate each white law student at the University of Missouri. But the state must pay $807 for each law student in the separate school-and the 44 Negroes still don't get a really equal education. Admitting Negroes to University of Missouri graduate schools, said the PD, was "the one best way" to correct an "expensive error...
Slim, deceptively mild Cartoonist Fitzpatrick fell out with Pulitzer's politics in 1936, when the PD, after publishing a dozen of Fitz's anti-Landon cartoons, came out against Roosevelt (it supported F.D.R. again, however, in '40 and '44). Fitz, refusing to draw pro-Landon cartoons, more or less expected to be fived. But Pulitzer only remarked to him: "Sorry you couldn't go along with us." Fitz, a P-D man for 31 years, summed up last week: "Hell, I wouldn't last a week with Hearst. This paper is run as near...
...Regular monthly allocation, to be sought on Form PD-600, will begin Nov. 1. Application for use, consumption or processing in October may be made at any time...