Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measure causes a President more calculation than thought. Important vetoes have grave political bearing. The power is so nearly absolute. Not more than 50 vetoes have been overridden in the U. S. history. Fifteen of them were President Johnson's (1865-69), and he was working on a Reconstruction (Post-Civil-War) program opposite to that desired by Congress...
Agriculture is now seeking Federal aid in its marketing. Aid in producing has been furnished by the Government since 1921 when post-War deflation hit the farms. The Government has aided as follows...
...have been no Farm Problem this year but for the election. McNary-Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer" prices than the prices currently obtaining. None knows better than Banker Meyer the disasters farmers have faced, but he regards farmers who had not recovered from post-War depression as "the inevitable aftermath." No price-fixing laws would save them...
...elected on the wave of an emotional appeal and I feel sure that I am not entitled to be so honored. . . . There is also a possibility that the new post might take me away from India, which...
While Commander Barnes was at the Naval War College, Admiral W. S. Pratt was president. Recently, Admiral Pratt was given command of the battle fleet, now on the Pacific, and shortly afterwards, Commander Barnes received orders to proceed to the West Coast to take a post as navigation officer under Admiral Pratt. He left yesterday for San Pedro, California...