Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police were not able to arrest more of them. Such shocking behavior is a sad commentary on the brand of young men who are classed as intelligent. The heavy hand of the college discipline should fall broadcast for the good name of Harvard.--Boston Post...
With outraged vehemence, Secretary of War Harry Woodring retorted that Major Generall Moseley "was disappointed in his ambition to become Chief of Staff. . . . As to the reasons why General [Malin] Craig was preferred for the important post, I do not think anyone needs to look farther than to read General Moseley's flagrantly disloyal statement...
...revolution of 1917 put a stop to all this. Zealous Bolsheviks liquidated Capitalist Koussevitzky's self-endowed orchestra and publishing house, offered him instead the post of Russia's musical head man. He declined, though he accepted for a time the conductorship of Petrograd's State Orchestra, where his dictatorial instincts were continually curbed by bureaucratic rules & regulations. Once officers of the GPU caught him attempting to escape to Estonia. When he did finally succeed in getting a passport to leave the country, he abandoned virtually all of his money and personal property to the Soviet Government...
Dean Hanford had what he described as "an amicable discussion" with George Buchanan, newly inaugurated commander of Post 27 of the American Legion...
Ambrose, whose father was a Commander of the Arlington Legion post, said, "Goose step? I tried it, but it killed my legs...