Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...socialite scion of the three venerable Manhattan families whose names he bears, a Harvard graduate, a son-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew. Succeeding Laura Harlan as social secretary to the White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland in 1920-days that brought him in touch with Herbert Hoover...
...corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that the men will doubtless be matched again before one of them is picked to meet Schmeling or Sharkey...
...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...
...boats by the hundred, but he still likes to get his own hands on the boats in his workshop. Brown and weatherbeaten as one of his Indian friends, Chris Smith is a most unassuming captain of industry. He has one and only one boast: that the Algonac post-office has been raised two grades through the importance of Chris Smith & Sons Boat...
Died. Lawrence Godkin, 69, son of the late famed Edwin Lawrence Godkin (editor of the New York Evening Post, founder of The Nation); in Manhattan...