Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anaconda was wrong. Though its records on the subject are vague, the Post Office Department did know that Anaconda's Anna was not the last of her species. During the War many a strong girl got a man's job toting letters from door to door. At least one who still functions is Katie E. Philpot, 44, of Williamston, N. C. Famed otherwise for fine tobacco, corn meal and wild turkeys, Williamston takes pride in the slim, resolute figure of Katie Philpot marching dutifully through the north end of town every morning and afternoon, her slim back bent...
Motionless in a wheelchair, swathed in blankets, his tired old face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate...
Gaunt, bumptious Colonel Giffin and his wife took a fancy to sycophantic Lieut. Smith and his wife, took them into the Giffin home at Goshen early last year. Deprived though they were of the conveniences of an army post, the Giffins, Smiths, et al. worked, drank, played in traditional fashion. Known throughout the army for his capacity, his peculiar humor and his misadventures, Colonel Giffin was the card of a clique who thought the hot foot was good fun and snatched hats from fellow barflies. Lieut, and Mrs. Smith lived with and on the Giffins for three months, incurred...
...expect him to try himself." ¶ Senator Holt of West Virginia: "I am sure that those who supported the La Follette anti-third-term resolution during the Coolidge Administration will be very glad to support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist Norman (William Norman Ritchie) of the Boston Post, more blunt, drew a chortling Franklin Roosevelt unctuously declining a third-term cup of cocoa in the New Deal cafe (see cut). ¶ Recovering with a bounce from his primary defeat, Representative Maury Maverick of Texas wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Record. Excerpt: "Calling all progressives! Calling all liberals! Stop...
...Thompson, whose publishers seized the occasion to release her 122-page, fact-packed book, Refugees: Anarchy or Organization?*. No secret is it that Miss Thompson's magazine and newspaper crusade stimulated President Roosevelt to call the Evian meeting. Into her book Newspundit Thompson crams a survey of the post-War history of the refugee problem and a grandiose proposal to deal with...