Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recommended that the President's Court Bill be rejected so overwhelmingly that no similar proposal would ever be made "to the free representatives of the free people," came and put his arm affectionately round Alben Barkley's shoulder. Senator Pat Harrison, defeated by one vote for the post which Barkley won, spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate, read the President's eulogy of the new Leader, a letter ending with the felicitous phrase: "He knows...
...Passed, 283 to 75, a second Reorganization Bill-the first passed by the House granted the President six assistants (TIME, Aug. 2)-to create a new Cabinet post, Secretary of Welfare. Sent to the Senate, this bill was not expected to see the light again till Congress meets next January...
Archbishop Mooney, whose friends last week were relating that he wept real tears when directed by the Pope to move on from his old post as Bishop of Rochester, N. Y., immediately took up his new duties, first of which was to install Most Rev. Joseph H. Albers, lately of Cincinnati, as first bishop of Lansing, Mich. The Detroit Free Press informed its readers that the city's new shepherd wished to be addressed, not with the formal "Your Excellency," but thus: "'Good morning, Archbishop!' or 'Archbishop, will you have coffee...
...other hand, if Dr. Corbit waited for Mary Bocassini to die, the only way to deliver the baby would still be by Cesarean section. This introduced a problem in Common Law. Cutting her body post mortem might be construed as an autopsy. And Common Law forbids autopsy without the consent of the nearest surviving kin. Her husband objected...
...Design, painter of burlesque shows, locomotives, Coney Island. Out of the mass of New Deal art contracts, Artist Marsh has received enough to keep him almost continuously employed for the past three years, his best known murals being narrow panels of unloading mail sacks in Washington's new Post Office...