Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week began with the Dutchess County Fair, at Rhinebeck, N. Y., a few miles up the Albany Post Road from Hyde Park. One visit to the Fair, for any Dutchess County squire, amounts almost to an obligation. Last week, the President made two. First afternoon, his car drew up under a canopy where the prize-winning cow and calf were brought over to be patted and he held the day's informal press conference. Next day Ambassador Robert W. Bingham, just back from London, lunched at Hyde Park. In the afternoon the President went to the Fair again, awarded...
...which then specialized in acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
...grew older, Owney became irritable and testy. The Post Office Department frowned on him. But in spite of official displeasure Owney's friends, the clerks, kept him traveling. Owney came to the end of his journeys in Toledo. He bit a post-office clerk, and on June 12, 1897, he was shot. But such was Owney's fame that he was stuffed and placed in a glass case in the Smithsonian Institution. For 40 years Owney sat in his niche in the Smithsonian, awaiting a successor. It is now fairly certain there will never be another quite like...
...other Anglo stockholders against Banker Herbert personally and the bank, charging in substance that he had used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...
...special chum, a sculptor. Three months after she married Ernest the World War took him, deposited him in a German prison camp for four years. The Russian Revolution swept away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then the post-War slump and a series of bad harvests put them hopelessly behind. It was no longer a question of buying the family chateau but of saving their own roof and patching the leaks...