Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fritz Mannheimer was typical of Europe's post-War financiers-too ambitious to be dismayed by the wreckage that demoralized older economists, too tough to be rebuffed by the snubs and cuts of a decaying financial aristocracy, slippery enough to make his way through the crevices that appeared as the social structure cracked under war strain. Adroit to the end, he died before his bank closed its doors...
...their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these or many other possible cases, his probable fate will be that of a Fascist-Trotskyist wrecker. Ivan Alexandrovich Benediktov, latest to gamble his life in this advanced post, took over the Commissariat last autumn. According to the Moscow Pravda he immediately set about "eradicating" his predecessor Robert Indrikovich Eikhe's "left-overs." Comrade Eikhe, who quietly disappeared last summer, had done the same to the "accomplices" of his predecessor, Commissar Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernov...
...past nine weeks Room 475 in the ornate old U. S. Post Office Building in Chicago's Loop has been carefully guarded from the press. Three tired deputy marshals, under orders to arrest loiterers, watched the three entrances and occasionally looked into an adjoining toilet to see that no reporter had his ear glued to the door. Inside Room 475 a Federal Grand Jury was investigating the income of one of the biggest U. S. publishers, and neither smart young District Attorney William Campbell nor his Washington boss, Frank Murphy, wanted to risk a complaint that the case...
...possible on top of it. Rohrbeck came to the U. S. in 1908, became a citizen in 1913, lost his job this year after some 30 years as a pastry chef in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. When even his yum-yum recipe for Streusselkuchen* failed to find him a post over the radio, Hans Rohrbeck went out and got himself a good job, is now serving up his Kuchen at Lake St. Clair's select Grosse Pointe Yacht Club...
...century harness races have been started by a unique method called scoring: horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes ten or 15 scores are required before the starter considers that they have all gone over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride)-with the "pole" (No. 1) horse nosing ahead. Many times seasoned drivers deliberately spoil the start in order to wear down less experienced drivers or the horse with the No. 1 position...