Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank, one of the things its leaders promised would hatch out was a new postmaster for Indianapolis. So, when the term of Postmaster Robert H. Bryson of Indianapolis expired two years ago and President Coolidge reappointed him, Representative Ralph E. Updike of Indianapolis went before the Senate Committee on Post Offices and objected. Senator Robinson of Indiana also helped obstruct Mr. Bryson's reappointment. Finally, last week, with Indiana's chief klansman behind bars for murder and the whole state in revolt at things Klannish, Senator Robinson dared obstruct no more. Two years late, the Senate confirmed...
...stability and prestige; 2) "The German Lloyd George," Dr. Gustav Stresemann, continues as Foreign Minister in cabinet after cabinet and negotiates ceaselessly among the former enemy powers from whom he has filched many a concession; 3) stern, able Defense Minister Otto Gessler is even more a fixture at his post than is Dr. Stresemann in his; he works tirelessly, commands imperiously and never gives interviews; 4) finally President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank is a granite wall against which some finance ministers lean for support and others butt in vain. Vigorous scathing Dr. Schacht never deviates from his wise...
Cincinnati Post said: "A Chicago bootlegger gets a Chicago verdict." The New York World called it "a burlesque ... a travesty ... a disgrace to the State of Ohio...
Frank Arthur Vanderlip to a special partnership in Campbell, Starring & Co. Mr. Vanderlip was, from 1909 to 1919, president of the National City Bank in Manhattan, a post from which he retired to his estate at Scarborough-on-Hudson. Now 63 and bored with retirement, he is investing capital in Campbell, Starring & Co. and will furnish his partners business & financial advice from his ample store...
...world, has concocted an oldtime almanack distinctly in harmony with the traditional mood of the season. To his aid have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets...