Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Along with more aid, Greece would soon get a new U.S. Ambassador. President Truman last week relieved scholarly, ailing Lincoln MacVeagh from the post he had held for eleven years, appointed him to the less demanding job of Ambassador to Portugal. MacVeagh's successor in Greece had not yet been chosen...
...tired, he dogtrots through a delicate and strategic job; he is also handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life private. Ross went to high school with the President, became chief of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once won a Pulitzer prize for his stories on the Hoover depression...
...been in Harry Truman's apprenticeship on the farm. They were both Missouri-bred, but there the resemblance ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo-tombo-rombo, who drowned...
...some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's story on supersonic flight; the other, a Denver Post article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets do not leak. Nevertheless, the group named the Washington Star...
Here & there, the trained seals were dragging their flippers. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter refused to let his byline be put on his MacArthur story. On the Los Angeles Examiner, a wag cracked : "MacArthur will wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home...