Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like two other able arms of the U.S. Government, the Treasury's T-men (who pursue counterfeiters, tax dodgers and dope peddlers) and the Post Office Inspectors, the FBI usually "gets" its man before it grabs him. In some 9,000 cases last year, the FBI got 97.2% convictions. Certainly, in other hands, the FBI was a potential danger to every free citizen. It had not proved to be so in the hands of John Edgar Hoover...
Morbid Watchers. Late one night, while most of Shanghai slept, the lights burned brightly in the offices of the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, whose difficulties with the Communists (TIME, July 4) had occupied the center of Shanghai's stage almost since the first days of the takeover. Inside, sleepless Editor Randall Gould and an assistant listened wearily while a delegation of workers beat out an ear-splitting cacophony with a band made up of pans, buckets and empty kerosene tins...
...Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct. No, I think it is better just to write...
John Foster Dulles, freshman Senator from New York, who was denied a seat on the potent Foreign Relations Committee because of seniority, brought his formidable knowledge of world affairs to bear in a consolation post-the District of Columbia Committee, which runs the city of Washington. "I am generally," said Dulles, "in favor of killing off the starlings. They are an importation from Europe that is not good...
Litter Perfect. In South Houston, Tex., a stray yellow alley cat wandered into the local post office building and gave birth to tour kittens under the Special Delivery table...