Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crane is the widow of George W. Beckford-a famous granite king of Hardwick, Vt., he having built such buildings as our Post Office at Washington, D. C. They had two sons and one daughter. This daughter died at the age of four years. She then adopted a little girl the same...
Such testimony from an Elder Statesman with the majestic record of Tang Shao-yi is of weightiest import. His career began, like that of Candidate Hoover, in the development of large engineering enterprises and led to government posts comparable in China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang...
Throughout the Soviet Union it is a grim jest to say that neither the Voice of God nor that of the People can be heard above the silence of Comrade Josef Stalin. Always shabbily dressed, the Dictator prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central...
Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post. They plan to marry in London in the middle of May, to honeymoon in an automobile. Novelist Lewis was recently divorced from his first wife. Miss Thompson divorced her first husband last summer...
...Barnard and Manship," Professor Post, Old Fogg Museum...