Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keep up the good work, TIME, but believe me, it is a hell of a thing to have to pay Kr. 1, 25 per issue for TIME (Kr. 1, 35 for the Saturday Evening Post) when I got it for 15? at home in California...
...post of Assistant Secretary of War, vacant since Harry Woodring was upped to full Secretary last September, President Roosevelt appointed Louis Arthur Johnson, commander of the American Legion in 1932-33, director of the Veterans division in last year's Democratic campaign. A West Virginia lawyer, captain in the World War, now 46, Legionary Johnson's chief responsibility will be buying all the Army's supplies...
...cynical attack has been made on the Old Deal and Charles Gates Dawes because of the $90,000,000 loan made by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to his Chicago bank in 1932, shortly after he resigned as RFC president. In last week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, the record of that transaction was set straight. It was told how General Dawes announced to other Chicago bankers and officials of the RFC that his bank would not open next morning; how he made it plain that he was asking no help for his bank, merely giving warning...
This legal rivalry has smoldered for months in Washington. To oppose the McCarran-Lea Bill, the Post Office has lately softened its harsh attitude toward the lines, gone out of its way to give them what they asked. Example was permission to United Air Lines last month to fly into Denver (TIME, May 10). To make this new service jibe with the Air Mail Act, Solicitor Karl A. Crowley had to devise a totally new concept-that an airline is a "zone of influence" instead of a geometric line. Last week Post Office men in Washington revealed that they will...
Author Brown cannot "recall any time when I did not think clearly," he was merely tired of living. A first sign of recovery was the return of his interest in reading. Asylum readers favored Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health, the Saturday Evening Post. Except for suicide news, newspapers were seldom noticed. Most popular intellectual pursuit was crossword puzzles...