Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
Strengthened and not weakened was Senator Byrd's argument for his amendment when Senators found on their desks what newshawks considered one of the boldest pieces of lobbying ever seen on the floor-mimeographed sheets from New York Housing Authority's Langdon Post maintaining that the per-room limit should not be less than $1,750. Senators owning homes in Washington figured that that was more than their own houses had cost; a comfortable 10-room, brick & stone dwelling even in Washington, they thought, ought not to cost much over...
...Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" Béla Kun resting harmlessly at a sanatorium not far from the Datcha of Stalin. He occupied an unimportant non-political post as head of the Social Economic Publishing House at Moscow...
Next day Archbishop Mooney was installed in his post in the presence of ten U. S. and Canadian archbishops, many a bishop, monsignor and priest. Escorted by Knights of Columbus in cocked hats, the ecclesiastics marched through crowded Detroit streets in what was the year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were...
...last week that tireless journalistic tribune of the people, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, had gone far enough into the background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware...