Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer school has always been known for its excellent courses in the drama, and this year was no exception. John Mason Brown, dramatic critic of the New York Post, gave the most popular course in the yard. "The History of the Modern Theatre." A one-act tragedy written in Brown's course last year, "Vengeance in Leka", was among the plays put on in the Hasty Pudding Club theatre under the direction of Frederick C, Packard, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
...Varsity game with Chicago, November 5, so as to give the winning candidate, who will be in charge of the Freshman game Yale, and his selected assistants, a week to prepare for it. From this competition, several men are chosen to compete in the Sophomore year for the post of assistant manager their Junior year and Varsity manager their Senior Year. An assistant Junior Varsity manager and assistant head Freshman manager are also picked from this sophomore competition. The leading candidate in the Freshman competition is awarded his numerals and is in charge of the Freshmen game with Yale...
Among those who have been prominently named for the post are Clark Hodder '25, this year's assistant coach, John Garrison '31, former Harvard and Olympic star, and George Ford '37, captain two years ago. In the professional ranks Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16 is understood to have looked over George Owen '23, M. I. T. coach, Hugo Harrington, Olympics head, Cooney Weiland, Boston Bruins and assistant coach here in 1932, Fred Hitchman, lately of the Boston Brunis, and Bun Cook and Frank Boucher, of the New York Rangers...
Just before CAA took over, the Post Office Department had to award contracts for several new airmail lines. Average Government subsidy for carrying the mail, during the four years since airmail contracts have been subject to competitive bidding, has been about 17? a mile. But for the new routes, bids reached new lows. Reason: successful bidders were to get their franchises confirmed as long as "public convenience and necessity" demanded them, when CAA took over, and would consequently have places in line if or when CAA handed out a fatter subsidy...
When bids were asked, Tom Braniff and aides, "on the biggest comptometer we could find," ciphered out the infinitesimal figure of $.00001907378, per mile, put that in as their bid. Much to their disgust, Eastern, spurning machines and decimal fractions, offered the decisively low bid of $0.00. The Post Office department sniffed these bargain figures cautiously. Allowing that Eastern's zero bid might be quite legal, it hemmed and hawed, then announced that it would leave the decision up to incoming CAA. But last week, just before CAA came in, the Post Office decided that $.00001907378 saved...