Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years Mr. Burke has been associated with the G. O. P. Committee. The post of General Counsel was especially created for him. Throughout the campaign he sat just outside Candidate Hoover's door. President Hoover took him along to the White House where he serves as the President's chief political adviser...
Ringside Comment. Soon it appeared that British Public opinion was indeed breaking party lines, surging to support Philip Snowden. "His robust patriotism pleases us as much as it surprises us," cried the conservative Morning Post, normally a ruthless flayer of all Laboriteism. "We are delighted that there is no nonsense about internationalism in the line that he has taken, and that he stands firmly upon the British interest...
Linz on the Danube is large, modern, comparatively prosperous. There are large iron works and ship yards for building river boats. Perched dramatically on a pine-clad rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect...
Only setback to steady United Drug prosperity came in the post-War deflation in which Mr. Liggett's company was threatened with insolvency. At this date, however, he had many a Rexall agent throughout the country and these Rexall agents, loyal, raised $1,500,000, helped him through the deflation period. Last year Drug, Inc. had a net income (11 months...
...late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose to a prominent position, particularly through his management of the railroad's electric traction interurban lines and oil interests. He managed Pacific Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co., Southern Pacific subsidiaries, which later were sold to Standard Oil of California and Tidewater Oil, respectively...