Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
Postmistress Hattie Giddings of Doles, Ga., said that before and after Benjamin Jefferson Davis, Negro Republican, got her her post, she was requested to give money...
...Every woman in industry who by underselling her labor deprives a man of his post is making more difficult the setting up of a home by that man. This prevents some other woman from becoming mistress of his home and exercising the rights and privileges inseparable from that position...
...skilled dramatist could simplify the problem, after the custom of his craft, by presenting to us a study of a man and woman about to marry and applying, each without the other's knowledge, for the same post. If he secures it, the play ends happily. If she secures it, the social loss is clear. This is what actually is taking place on a large scale-all over the world...
Professor Martelli's predecessor, Signor Giuseppe Belluzzo was "rotated" over to be Minister of Public Instruction, while the former incumbent of that post, Signor Pietro Fedele, was sacked...