Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsman Barnet Nover this week brought off the dream assignment of every capital reporter: the first exclusive interview with President Harry Truman. An old friend of the President's, Nover is also the new Washington bureau chief of the Denver Post...
...delivered a scathing attack on the occupation authorities of the western zones. He ridiculed Allied imports as "chicken feed," accused the British of "pilfering," and urged sitdown strikes. Last week, Dr. Johannes Semmler got his comeuppance from the U.S. and British occupation commanders. He was summarily dismissed from his post as executive director of economics for Bizonia...
Life on a California prison farm was a humbling experience for Big Bill Tilden. During his 7½ months in jail (for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor") he worked in the kitchen scouring pots & pans, waited on table, and worked up to storekeeper ("a very responsible post"). But his prison term hadn't really changed him. He had just published a book, and in it he was still the arrogant and unblushing showoff...
...Missouri, where a "separate but equal" law school has had its longest test, the powerful St. Louis Post-Dispatch pronounced it a "mistake." Said the PD: it costs only $228 a year to educate each white law student at the University of Missouri. But the state must pay $807 for each law student in the separate school-and the 44 Negroes still don't get a really equal education. Admitting Negroes to University of Missouri graduate schools, said the PD, was "the one best way" to correct an "expensive error...
...worse is the plight of the men who offered to redouble their rooms; their sacrificing spirit is costing them money as well as comfort. To take an example, the base rent of an average triple is $125 and of a double $175. Assuming both suite have four post-war occupants, and that $40 is added for each extra man, simple arithmetic shows the men in the doubled suite are paying five dollars more. In other words, it is more expensive for four men to live in a double suite than in a triple. Four hundred undergraduates are victims of this...