Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luca della Robbia", Professor Post, small Fogg lecture room...
...miles of the Philippine Islands with a population of nearly 11,500,000 are governed by the U. S. through a triumvirate of officials. First in order is the Governor General, civil administrator; second is the military headquarters commander; third is the military field commander. To the last-named post President Coolidge last week appointed Major General Paul Bernard Malone...
...Held a post in the Sacred Union...
...grandfather (surnamed Buonfiglio) was a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte. When the West was a gold brick, Mr. Bonfils bounced about until he profited $800,000 in the Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat and dripping ballyhoo, the Denver Post was a circus in itself. The reputation of Mr. Bonfils was to use the hatchet...
...other party is Roy Wilson Howard, smartly groomed and quick-witted head of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers. He had stepped into the Denver field two years ago, purchased the Rocky Mountain News (morning) and formed the Evening News to compete with Mr. Bonfils' Post (evening). Mr. Bonfils soon issued a Morning Post (TIME, Jan. 17, 1927). The competition was a vicious fight-a circulation war, a death-grapple for advertising, a snarling in editorials, a sneering in news columns...