Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Post Office Superintendent William J. Dixon, defending his selection of a blonde secretary: "She is alert, apt, quick, energetic . . . best suited. You Senators and others call at my office and it is necessary that you all be courteously treated...
...monument which has been leveled to the dust since Berenice Abbott photographed it in May 1938, is the almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...
Born. To John Boettiger, 39. publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and his wife, the former Anna Roosevelt Dall, 32, a son, their first child; in Seattle...
...scholarship because she was only 16. Sylvia Field Porter graduated from Hunter College and talked her way into a job with an investment counsel firm in the desolate year of 1932. In 1935 she went to work as a financial writer for the New Dealish New York evening Post and when the struggling Post last year had to cut expenses, she became its entire financial staff...
...popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...