Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made the Communist nose-in-air the more remarkable was that it had been there so often before. Last April, when former Communist Agent Walter Krivitsky, onetime Chief of Military Intelligence in Western Europe, publicized Stalin's undercover activities in the Saturday Evening Post, accurately forecast the Nazi-Communist Pact, Communists blandly asserted there was no such Krivitsky, featured a creepy New Masses article: "General Krivitsky, you are Shmelka Ginsberg!" At 10:30 one morning last week there appeared before the Committee a slight, thin-faced, intense man of 40 who was introduced by Chairman Dies...
...last fiscal year, praised his "humane and efficient leadership," sat down to a feed. They ate up, among other things, 25 gallons of olives, 1,800 breasts of capons. Then they settled back to hear their boss tell them that "the U. S. Post Office and its people constitute the greatest public service in existence today...
...bouquet of roses presented to her at the banquet, a menu signed by Jim Farley, a waltz with an unknown postmaster. "Our badges were our introduction," she explained. "I love to dance-the waltz glide, not this hopping around." Then back she went to her post office on the Eastern Shore, for bi-monthly stocktaking...
...armistice hoax was called "fantastic" at the British Foreign Office, where an official spokesman cracked: "The allegations should be dealt with in the special jokes department." Nevertheless, it was a pretty compliment, and an eminently justifiable one, to the potent British espionage-propaganda system which, by the tearful post-war testimony of Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg, did more to undermine German resistance in 1918 than all the Allies' guns...
...Burns of the Post: "I prodict a 13 to 6 win for Harvard, on trickery...