Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Villard acquired the New York Evening Post, then a great liberal organ, in 1881. She also owned the Nation, which was edited by Wendell Phillips Garrison, her brother, from 1865 to 1906. In 1900, her husband died. Thereafter, her sons and daughter having grown up, she devoted herself thoroughly to the sort of causes it was in her blood to champion...
Some day the New York or Chicago police may tyrannize over honest citizens in such outrageous fashion as to move the Congress of the U. S. to investigate. Such an emergency might cause the City of New York or of Chicago to call General John Joseph Pershing to the post of Police Commissioner, in hope of restoring public confidence in policemen. Conceivably a great lawyer and statesman, such as Charles Evans Hughes, might say, in speaking of the application of a police third degree to some young woman: "Every father of an American girl sees in the affair of Miss...
...credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William Hale Harkness, George Pynchon, George Post...
...year-old Farrell, then general manager of the Pittsburgh Wire Co., who brought his company through the panic by selling half the plant's output in foreign markets. By 1901, when the U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, Mr. Farrell was recognized as the outstanding candidate for the post of foreign sales agent. In 1903, he became head of the corporation's export subsidiary, the U. S. Steel Products Co., and increased foreign sales from $31,000,000 to $90,000,000 in 1912, to $200,000,000 in War time, to well over...
Died. Jack Bethea, 40, editor of the Birmingham, Ala., Post (Scripps-Howard); by suicide; in Birmingham...