Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the parade, Marty resumed his seat in the Chamber, expected to resume his post on the Chamber's Army Committee. But last week a petition with 50 signatures was produced which denied him the Committee post. Deputy Marty's military record, not in the Spanish People's Army but in the French Republic's Army and Navy, was exhumed and used against him. An unusual...
...average of more than 6,000 people write to the Voice of Experience each day, ask for help and advice. They write to the station on which they hear him or to a Manhattan Post Office box address. The location of his home and his office he keeps secret. His passion for anonymity goes so deep that he claims that even members of his family heard the Voice on the air for years before they knew his identity. His business acquaintances call him the Voice. That is the way he signs most of the letters he writes, and his briefcase...
...Boston hockey fans moaned into their mufflers. "We had the best goalie in the world," they grumbled, "and Manager Art Ross sells him for $15,000!" Last week the moans turned to cheers. The rookie who had been raised from the Bruins Providence farm into Goalie Thompson's post had brought the Bruins six shutouts in seven games, had made Boston the frosty focus of the hockey world...
...Baritone David secretly cherish ambitions to be movie stars. All used to be farmers. Last month Tenor Brown saw his first football game. Uncertain how to behave, he noticed that the other spectators all held their mouths open. So he opened his. Accidentally getting too close to a goal post, he got severely bumped, still carries a bruise or two. Says Tenor Brown: "God help a football game...
...late Cyrus H. K. Curtis had a golden touch with magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman), but his newspaper ventures turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...