Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Riley, who jumped his police chief last week for offering the same alibis for the city's disorder that had been used "ever since you were a harness bull." Once when a cantankerous office-seeker called him a buckpasser, Mr. Riley, an Oregon State Agricultural Collegeman, whose post-graduate work included truck driving, replied that "no son of a bitch can call me a buck-passer," and forthwith thrashed the fellow purple...
...Yorkshire Post, owned by Mrs. Eden's family, did its best to sabotage Lord Halifax's visit. It was rebuked by the London Daily Telegraph (which is close to Mr. Chamberlain) for printing rumors that "There exist and are known to Germany to exist in this country [Britain] a "certain number of people-not all of them obscure [Halifax & friends]- who would be prepared to welcome a German campaign of territorial expansion in the East [Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia] if by that means Germany could for the time being be diverted from exploiting her nuisance value in other directions...
...United States Navy, the Legion furnished a guard of honor to one of the men responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their latest fallen "Buddy". All day long, on schools, libraries, and even...
Dean George H. Nettleton said he was conducting a "routine investigation, to give the boys a chance to tell their side of the story." Mean while the three, a Freshman, a Sophomore and a Junior forfeited the $25 bonds which they were compelled to post in Auburndale in exchange for their freedom, and returned to their New Haven classrooms...
Bill Bingham and Dick Harlow and the Harvard ideal of teams composed of men who are primarily students and athletes afterward have received their share of fully merited praise from a wildly happy college. The Harvard system of subordinating athletics has been fully vindicated. But in all the post-game delirium there is one group whose part in the great victory is, because of its obvious magnitude, apt to be overlooked...