Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous spring of still and unexciting table water. After a week of many warm words of idealism, few practical suggestions, the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees took on some of the same characteristics. Two days of stalling went on before a president was elected. No delegate wanted the post, each fearing that his nation would then be responsible for the conference's all-too-probable failure. Finally stocky, publicity-hating Myron C. Taylor, onetime Chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. and chief U. S. delegate, agreed to accept...
From a front-page editorial in the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer entitled HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN by Publisher John Boettiger, son-in-law of President Roosevelt...
Able Mary King began her successful newspaper career as assistant secretary to her husband's cousin, the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick while he was publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Before getting her present post, she had been secretary of the Tribune's Sunday department, assistant Sunday editor, Sunday editor, women's editor of Liberty when it was owned by the McCormick-Patterson interests. She and Publisher Patterson are old, old friends. Three of her four broth ers fought through the World War in the 149th Field Artillery of the 42nd (Rain bow) Division, in which...
...Senate bill to place full control of the industry with the I.C.C. Year later, in the House, California's Clarence Lea offered a bill to create an independent Government bureau for aviation. Until the last Congress, neither bill had been able to make much headway. Both the Post Office Department and the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Air Commerce stood to lose firm political footholds if the centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly got mixed up in the Reorganization squabble. Pat McCarran had designed his bill to keep aviation well...
Among the many superstitions of big-league baseball players is the belief that the teams in first place on July 4 will win the pennants. Last week Wall Street traders seemingly fought to see which could get the highest batting average before the holiday. As brokers raced from post to post, the ticker day after day fell behind. Volume reached new peaks as the public all over the U. S. began buying. One day, 1,090,000 shares changed hands in the first hour-heaviest trading in nine months. June, which had promised to produce the thinnest trading since...