Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story. Fully aware of the rumors that had escaped the ears of Franklin Roosevelt, the Post Gazette sent its eccentric, middleaged, ace political factfinder, Ray Sprigle, to Alabama to investigate the story as soon as Hugo Black was nominated. For Reporter Sprigle-who affects Western sombreros, carries a silver-ringed cane and likes nothing better than a job of conscientious muckraking-the assignment was a treat. His first dispatches were routine stories which contained principally the information that the Klan had supported Hugo Black in the 1926 election. Original plan was to run the articles before Justice Black could...
...perpetually shifting line-up of the New Deal, one of the least permanent jobs in Washington has been the important legal post of Chief of Counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue-whose legal policies toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter...
...Schacht is to have no further government role he is out presumably not only as Economics Minister but also as President of the Reichsbank, the post in which he won fame as "the ablest central banker in Europe." These many years Dr. Schacht has stood off Germany's creditors with phenomenal adroitness; he created and managed the trickiest set of currencies the world has ever seen, the various varieties of German marks; and more recently he has sewed up banks, governments and firms in many countries of the world in barter deals by which Germany, since she could...
Imperialistic newspapers like the London Morning Post accused South Africa's League of Nations Delegate of uttering a "calculated indiscretion." Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street. Just before he set foot in Whitehall it was suddenly announced by British officials not at Geneva but in London that Britain and France would now take a step which Germany and Italy took a few months ago, that is, withdraw their warships from the Non-Intervention Patrol which...
...admiration. Born in New York City 41 years ago, Jaffe studied chemistry at C. C.N. Y. and Columbia, went abroad with the A. E. F., made a brief venture into business, turned to chemistry teaching, is now chairman of a high-school science department, has never held a post of high scientific distinction. Yet in 1930 he won the Francis Bacon Award for the Humanizing of Knowledge with Crucibles, an account of the lives and work of great chemists...