Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pimlico racetrack, near Baltimore, War Admiral went to the post in the Pimlico Special a 1-to-20 favorite, shortest odds of the year at a major track. There was an excited roar from 15,000 throats as War Admiral, usually first from start to finish, could not get out in front, trailed a mediocre horse named Masked General all the way to the home stretch. Then Masked General ran out and War Admiral squeezed home a lucky winner, to bring his 1937 earnings to $166,500. Owner Riddle announced he was retiring him for the season...
Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Public Health Service (Treasury Department), the Children's Bureau (Department of Labor) and the Veterans' Administration. These Federal medical activities now warrant, doctors argue, a Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet, with an M. D. always in office. Nearest thing to such a post is the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury in charge of Public Health, which Josephine Roche has just resigned (TIME...
Returning from the races James ("Squibs") Thomas stumbled in the gloom of London's big, depressing Liverpool St. station, plunged headfirst into a 90-ft. mail bag post chute. Mrs. Thomas screamed, fainted. Husband James slithered downward in darkness, suddenly appeared on a moving belt in an underground post office. Three feet ahead on the wide belt danced his unharmed bowler hat. Mr. Thomas, likewise unharmed, was quickly sorted from the mail by postal employes, returned to his wife who cried, "Oh, Squibs...
After receiving a training in the elements of general newspaper management, the winners of the competition will be eligible for the post of Sophomore business manager...