Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michael Angelo", Professor Post, small Fogg lecture room...
That, and the political debt owed him by President Hoover, were partly what made the Republican New York Evening Post call his "a rather ignoble appointment...
...Post, with many other good G. O. Papers, was "disappointed" in Mr. Hoover because, under ill-disguised pressure from the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, he had rejected William Joseph Donovan, a prize Hooverite but a Roman Catholic and a Wet. Before the eager Donovan eye were juggled first the Attorney-Generalship, then the War portfolio. Mr. Hoover finally had to withdraw both. The best he could offer his good friend was the Governor-Generalship of the Philippines, which Col. Donovan refused, leaving Mr. Hoover to wonder if he had been disloyal to an old friend...
Every Administration needs an expert on patronage. Mr. Brown will serve Mr. Hoover in this capacity, the Post Office being the largest job-pasture in the Government (365,000 workers). Since President Hoover has evinced an interest in Government reorganization, perhaps the Brown Plan of 1921 will emerge from its pigeonhole. Otherwise, and perhaps even so, Mr. Brown may be counted on as a quiet yes-peg with a political point...
...first wage earner to occupy the post of Chairman of the Conservative Council," boasted "Old Gwilym" afterwards. "And I consider this fact an indication of the democratic tendency of the Conservative Party nowadays...