Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble enough has the Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both Hubert Work and Roy Owen West, who both declined. The London parley necessitated an appointment, even temporary, of a man capable of conducting the intricate behind scenes negotiations incident to any international conference. A new complication had arisen with Japan's request for a change in its cruiser...
Died. William Walton Griest, 70. Pennsylvania Representative since 1909; at Mount Clemens, Mich.; of arthritis and pneumonia. Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, he advocated lower second-class mail rates 1? postcard rate, increased pay for postal employes...
...that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction, the Metropolitan was unwilling to wait two years more. Said the New York Evening Post: From 50 to 100 of the obstructing leases are held by speakeasies...
...Some of them: New York Evening World, Chicago Daily News, Kansas City Journal-Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Indianapolis News, Minneapolis Morning Tribune, Atlanta Journal, Cincinnati Times-Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis gave the U. S. a big 5? worth last week. The Dec. 7 issue of his weekly magazine was advertised as "the greatest Saturday Evening Post in history." It was also the biggest issue of any magazine ever printed...