Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses...
...Post Office, the Department of Justice and chemists of the Naval Laboratory were asked to trace out the dark roots of a dastard, sinister conspiracy. To marveling callers, Senator Heflin showed how, had he tucked the fiendish violin under his massive chin, he might have inhaled microbes. He then answered a question that had puzzled many people-why he is allowed to live...
...Nationalist Government at Nanking has obtained as its Foreign Minister the able and versatile General Huang-Fu. Some five years ago he administered this same post with marked success for what is now the rival reactionary Government at Peking. Later the facile General served as Chinese envoy to Germany, and more recently he was Mayor of the Chinese settlement at Shanghai. Last week he quietly put forward the Nationalist claims for revision of China's "unequal treaties" with the Powers but displayed in his statements to the press a healthy consciousness of realities and a willingness to bide...
...Louis Post-Dispatch (evening...
...collection, unusually large in its scope, extends from 1780 until 1820, and is drawn from the bills of the Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket theatres. Before the playbill for March 10, 1788, for the presentation of Macbeth, is a long notice for the Morning Post apparently in the handwriting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was at this time lessee of the Drury Lane theatre...