Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading the article "Smouldering Illini" appearing in the latest issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it is evident that that publication has wasted a great deal of its time and money as well as the time and money of one, Kenneth L. Roberts, in gathering together through the agency of the latter, material for what is purported to be a first hand account of the University of Illinois campus and undergraduates...
...Post Office officials strenuously denied any connection between the shipping '"war" and the mail consignment. Said Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover: "My only interest is in seeing that the mail goes to Europe as fast as possible." It should be remembered that the government of the U. S. has many departments, many activities, that Postmaster General New, for instance, would have no official reason to be grieved if every U. S. citizen went to Cuba on a British ship. Meanwhile, however, reports that the mail orders were reprisals against Cunarders persisted, named T. V. O'Connor, chairman...
...they rise at 3 o'clock for lauds, and at 5 o'clock go each to his post: some to herd swine, some to cultivate the fields, some to clerks' desks. Each day has periods for prayer and meditation. To prior and sub-priors they owe utter obedience...
...brother officers, Prussians and Bavarians, followed him to Gorheim, not only because they were sad for the blood they had shed, but also because they disliked the post-war world. During the last few months the penitents have come by twos and threes, until last week it was calculated that at least 200 had been received as novices at the monastery. Most of them were socially prominent in Berlin and Munich, living lives of blithesome ease, swanking at regimental reunions...
...Democrats, however, borrowed $100,000 from Mr. Raskob and $1,500,000 from the County Trust Co., Manhattan. As they spent all but $100,000 of what they were given and of what they borrowed, they now have a one and one-half million dollar deficit to increase post-election headache...