Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Members of Parliament who act as unpaid wheelhorses for cabinet ministers and junior ministers. One of their chief duties is to answer members' inquiries at question time, which means that they frequently know more about ministry affairs than the ministers themselves. A post as P.P.S. is usually considered the first step toward ministerial rank...
...court or committee ever questioned me." Edelman said "I never knew my name was on FBI files until the Boston Post got it. They smeared it over the front page before I had a chance for a hearing...
...added that the FBI data--supposedly confidential--had originally been given by a member of Congress to a Reader's Digest staff writer "who evidently sold it to the Post and papers in other cities...
...speech was cancelled, however, on the insistence of the local American Legion post. McWilliams spoke in Riverside anyway--at a meeting called on May 16 to protest the Legion's action...
Leonard once read of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, tried to settle these grievances, but nothing was accomplished. So he spilled his story to the newspaper and then resigned his post...