Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
...squad, the Greek cabinet passed a special order in council which, for the first time, would allow a case of this kind to be brought before a court of pardons. When the government ordered the army to postpone Michael's execution, the military governor of Athens resigned his post in protest. Almost overnight the news reached the northern fron tier. Through the thin cold air of the mountains the loudspeakers of General Markos jeered triumphantly at the government troops: "You see, there is one law for the rich, another for the poor. They executed others for the same thing...
...Emily Post, 75, chided a reporter for a breach of etiquette in asking when she was born (a date she has not given to Who's Who in America). "Where is this going to be printed?" she added. "It's for our files," replied the reporter. "Oh, an obituary. Well," ruled Mrs. Post, "if they're not going to print it until I'm dead, I don't care...
...15th time in as many years, Fred Allen announced last week that he was quitting radio. The satchel-eyed comic told New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "I'm going to sit around and think, and see what's going to happen with television." And he "may write. I have four chances to do books...
...becoming a Franciscan, Emmett McLoughlin had taken vows subordinating his own will to the wisdom and spiritual judgment of his Superior. When that Superior, the. Rev. Gregory Wooler O.F.M., decided that the time had come for Father McLoughlin to leave his post, the 41-year-old priest made a rebellious decision...