Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons for severing them, and no one had the slightest doubt that his feeling for the Klan was even deader than the Klan itself. Last week, however, after all its political importance had passed, the question of Hugo Black and the Klan still seemed hot enough to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the North American Newspaper Alliance for them to start a series of articles exposing...
Written by a Post-Gazette Reporter named Ray Sprigle, the first article in the series told that Supreme Court Justice Black had put on his white robes to take the Klan oath in the Klavern of Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1 in Birmingham in 1923; that in 1925, more than a year before the Senatorial primaries in which he defeated anti-Klan Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Hugo Black got Alabama's Grand Dragon and Great Titans to pledge him their support for the U. S. Senate; that the next step in the Black campaign was to write...
Down the corridor from Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley's office in Washington's new Post Office Department Building, a bald gentleman who loves flute playing and the frozen North, fortnight ago finished two murals in the smooth, decorative style for which he is famed. One showed the first airmail delivery among Alaskan Eskimos, the other the same event in Puerto Rico. Neither attracted much attention until last week hale, old, Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson opportunely happened by and disclosed that one of Rockwell Kent's murals contained the nearest thing to a cryptogram now on view...
...letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which meant: "To the people of Puerto Rico, our friends! Go ahead. Let us change chiefs. That alone can make us equal...
...less than two years when dredging is completed, 310 acres of tidal flats raised, and hangars, runways, offices, hospital and post office are built, Airport No. 2 will be quadrupled in size and second to none in the U. S. in equipment. Four runways from 3,650 to 4,770 ft. each 150 ft. wide, will accommodate the largest transports; fog-free Flushing Bay, lined with eight monster hangars and swank administration and service buildings will be ready to receive seaplanes from Bermuda and Europe...