Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later Mr. Cotton was reconfirmed to his post which ranks second only to that of Statesman Stimson himself?but this time, in the more usual closed executive session...
Thus population changes, ignored since 1910, will at last be considered. When the post-census Congress meets, it will, on estimates of the 1930 count, contain six additional members from California, four from Michigan, three from Ohio, two from New Jersey and Texas, and one from Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington. Subtractions will be three from Missouri; two from Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky. Mississippi; one from Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia...
French Ambassador M. Paul Claudel, famed poet, philosopher, mystic. A chubby, bald, scraggly-mustached man, he is so shy that formal diplomatic entertainments are obnoxious to him. In Japan, his last ambassadorial post, he was almost a national hero because of his literary achievements, his appreciation of difficult Oriental art. Last week he said: "I shall not surrender a privilege of so many years' standing...
...Hubert Work of the Republican National Committee for a three-hour conference with President Hoover. When he came out, he joked with newsgatherers about a man who had been "hired and fired in ten minutes." A mystified Press soon learned that Dr. Work had resigned his high political post...
...will start practically the same lineup that hammered out 18 runs against the Alumni outfit Thursday. It is still questionable whether T. W. Gilligan '31 or G. E. Donaghy '29 will bat in third place. The big outfielder's recent batting spurt should give him the preference for the post...