Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge signed the billion-dollar Treasury-Post Office supply bill...
...fish post, Baltimore ranks after Boston and New York and ordinarily handles its sea food as cleanly as do the others. Yet not sufficiently so to satisfy public health authorities. Hence representatives of Baltimore's health department had Baltimore's Association of Commerce draw Baltimore's wholesale fish & sea food mongers into a conference which, last week, drew up 19 regulations to keep the food clean...
...store organization in the world. President Hahn of the new combination, forsees a billion dollar department chain with annual turnover exceeding F.W. Woolworth, United Cigar, or Atlantic & Pacific. Various units will continue to operate under present managements, President George W. Mitton of Jordan Marsh, for example, continuing at his post and also becoming Chairman of Hahn Department Stores...
Died. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 81, able Manhattan journalist (Tribune, Evening Post, Globe, 1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1905-14), Roosevelt biographer; suddenly; in Manhattan...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 in 1897 for a spavined relic of Benjamin Franklin called The Saturday Evening Post. Last week at 5? a copy it sold more than 2,750,000, bearing the face of the patriarch on the cover and the legend, "Two Hundredth Anniversary Number." Editor George Horace Lorimer commented on the occasion to the extent of two columns in the editorial section. Said he: ". . . to assist in the evolution of a finer and loftier civilization, to express our national spirit week by week, as truly and concretely as we can-all these...