Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that Mr. Sousa originally sold Washington Post to a Philadelphia pub:lisher for $35. Later Carl Fischer purchased that publisher's catalogue including the Sousa music. Thereafter (still during the term of the first copyright period) Carl Fischer made a new agreement with Mr. Sousa in accordance with which Mr. Sousa and his estate were to receive a royalty on every copy sold in every arrangement published...
...Paul McNutt, first and boldest Democratic candidate for Franklin Roosevelt's job (TIME, July 10), was a question which Mr. Roosevelt answered last week by inviting Mr. McNutt to become, after resigning as High Commissioner to the Philippines, director of the new, consolidated Federal Security Agency. In that post, at Washington. Candidate McNutt could be kept under surveillance and control, throttled if necessary. Or he could be built up as heir-apparent if that seemed more desirable. Able, ambitious executive that he is, he could be counted on in either case to do a good job for aged pensioners...
...July 3), James Monroe Smith was nowhere in sight, someone having seen to it that he had plenty of time to vanish after he resigned. By the week-end the man whom L. S. U. students publicly derided as JIMMY THE STOOGE had become a peril to the whole post-Huey machine in Louisiana, and particularly to Earl Long's hopes of being elected Governor in his own right next year...
...minded reactionaries in an American school." By last week protest had been made to Governor Martin by the entire college faculty and student body, all six of the State's Representatives in Congress, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the American Federation of Teachers, labor unions, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, many an educator, many a Washington Democrat...
Decade ago Manhattan Publicity Counselor Harry Bruno attended an airmen's wine & dine shindig, cracked that he thought fliers were strong, silent, quiet birdmen. Result: "The Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen," with such noted members as Charles Lindbergh, Roscoe Turner, the late Wiley Post. Qualifications: good flying, good fellowship. Chief function: convivial hell-raising...