Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, enjoying a quiet post-New Year holiday at the home of Lord Iveagh in Ely, Cambridgeshire, suddenly packed his bags and hurried to London last week. Government spokesmen explained that "bad weather" had forced Mr. Chamberlain to return. Indeed it had. The Prime Minister had hurried back to keep a close watch on the political bad weather which his policy of "appeasement" is now experiencing in Britain...
...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
...managing editor of the defunct Chicago Post, swart, husky Michael Wolf Straus used to "raise merry hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
...gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family. Less stuffy folk than the Wallaces would be hard to find; they might say with Burns...
...popular and influential teacher here for thirty-nine years, Dean Chase was a happy appointment to the post of "deputy president" with functions closely paralleling a governmental vice-president. In his new niche in the pyramiding of authority, the Dean should prove a valuable asset in general superintendence...