Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese delegates journeyed to New York, there embarking on the Olympic for London, the Post blatted back at Statesman Stimson that it was "sorry if its high praise of Secretary Adams had caused acute pain and humiliation to the Secretary of State...
...Major added that his charge is not expected to resume his post at the Foreign Office for "several months." Rumors are current in London that H. R. H. combats insomnia with white powders, one school of rumor holding that they are ordinary sleeping powders...
...Tageblatt intimated that should Dillon, Read beat their "rivals" to the Stock Exchange with an $100,000,000 German loan, subsequent Morgan pickings from Reparations Bonds might verge upon the loan. According to the "dope" Dr. Schacht was persuaded to obstruct the loan by Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose post as Agent General of Reparations will automatically be abolished when the Young Plan comes into effect. For years Germans have been hearing that Mr. Gilbert will then become a Morgan partner...
...early 'teens he won honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to the Geneva Conservatory as head of the piano faculty, a post once held by the great Franz Liszt. He accepted, stayed in Geneva for four years, then embarked on a concert career with immediate success...
...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...