Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd announced last week that he would introduce a bill to reimburse a Smithfield ham producer for losses suffered on hams which the Post Office was unable to deliver to Republic Steel Corp. officials during the steel strike...
Last week the archer's arrows rebounded. Observers could envisage what scorn Charley would have called up if, in 1931, he had caught a Republican in his own shoes, for Charley had just announced that, while retaining his inside Democratic post, he was accepting a $200-a-week contract as publicity "adviser" to the Crosley Radio Corporation. The contract stipulates that he shall not appear before any Government Commission...
Christened the "Vertaplane" by its inventor, Gerard Post Herrick (distant kin of onetime Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick) of New York City, the craft has a strong pylon with a vertical mast which holds the top wing firmly in place for ordinary flying, and when released allows it to revolve on a bearing for a gyro landing. By virtue of a starting mechanism in the wing which starts rotation on the ground, the Vertaplane can make a gyro takeoff as well as a gyro landing. It weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick...
...softer ironies at which perceptive Nazis squirm became visible last week in Bavaria. Opened by Realmleader Hitler with a 90-minute tirade against post-war esthetics (TIME, July 26), the new, massive House of German Art in Munich drew daily throngs of youths and maidens looking for Strength Through Joy in a collection of conventional paintings by young Nazi discoveries. But for every visitor who paid 50 pfennigs to see what the Führer liked in the way of art, three visitors went down the street a little to see for nothing what the Führer despises. This...
Married, Harold Gatty, 34, who flew around the world in 1931 with the late Wiley Post; to Fenna Bolderhey, 23, of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; in Queens...