Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his new post, Secretary Gray, unruffled by his row with the National Guard, looks back longingly on his first Army assignment. "The life of a private is a happy one, one of the happiest periods of my life," he remembers. "I never was called upon to make a decision...
...commission's reasoning, and the professional eminence of the men who made the report, was sure to have a deep effect on U.S. educational policies. Yet the principle was also sure to encounter problems of enforcement. Said the New York Post: "Communist teachers conceal their affiliations. How can they be identified unless the techniques of FBI investigation . . . are imposed on the campus? How can that be done without imperiling the innocent...
...Sherlock Holmes stories in 1887, he picked 221B Baker Street because there was no such address; the numbers stopped short of 200. But in 1931, an eight-story office building was put up at 220-223 Baker Street by the Abbey National Building Society. Ever since, the London post office has turned over to the company an average of five letters a month addressed to Holmes at 221B, and the company has dutifully answered them...
...letters to 221B will "be delivered to 32-year-old Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine. An ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British army veteran, Hall got the idea for his magazine one day when he was strolling along Baker Street. The post office agreed to recognize the mythical 221B as a real address and assign it to the magazine, although Hall and his staff of four have had to set up temporary offices two miles away on Lower Belgrave Street...
...fill Clement's post, Pennsy directors picked another oldster, hulking (6 ft. 6 in.) Executive Vice President Walter S. Franklin, himself at the voluntary retirement age of 65 (mandatory retirement age: 70). Franklin had started on a freight platform in Philadelphia in 1906, worked steadily up through the freight division. He left the Pennsy three times-twice to become president of other railroads (Wabash and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton). Each time he returned to a better job with the Pennsy. In 1948 he was made executive vice president...