Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willmott's informants were the editors of The Arrow, latest of British weekly newssheets, recently started by the diplomatic correspondents of the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post. Latest issue of The Arrow to reach the U. S. says that German air mobilization is now 95% complete, that the rest of the mobilization program is now progressing on this schedule...
Minister Rodríguez scooted back to Lima, gathered a handful of followers, largely Government employes from his own ministry, and marched into the Government Palace. He summoned the Army officer in command of the palace machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns...
...learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal Family, he not only declined but gave up all his drawing pupils in panic...
...Lampoon president (1909-10), a member of Hasty Pudding, Signet, Stylus, DKE, and a great friend of rollicking John Reed. When a group including Classmate Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly founded the liberal New Republic in 1914, Radical John Reed encouraged Hallowell of the banking Hallowells to take the post of treasurer. Ten years later he suddenly quit, went to Paris, arranged a divorce, became an artist. At 52, Robert Hallowell died...
Charles L. Burwell, Edward L. Cherbonnier, J. Donald Enterline, and Robert E. Lane were the seniors nominated for the Class Marshal post. The additional name put up for Class Treasurer was Forest W. Stearns...