Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal secretary, her maid, half a dozen Secret Service agents, her sister "Mike" (wife of retired Army Lieut. Colonel George Gordon Moore), and an old friend. Mrs. Ellis D. Slater (wife of the retired president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.). The management's delicate logistics problem was how to post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find a spot-behind an oleander hedge on a bank sloping down from...
...TIME, March 3)? Ike smiled at the question: "Well, I wish it were reduced, but-no, I don't think it has at all, and I never -this is the first time I even heard such a suggestion." Asked also: When would he undergo a second and final post-stroke neurological checkup, already a month overdue? Ike smiled again, admitted that he had been wondering the same thing himself. "I think maybe I should check up," he said. At week's end, having checked, he went to Walter Reed Hospital to take care of the tests and also...
...vote was hardly a clear-cut victory for fiscal responsibility. For one thing, with a canny display of practical politicking. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and his aides patrolled the Republican cloakroom right up to the count, displaying a list of post offices in members' states that might be rebuilt or modernized with $175 million of the money the new rate would bring...
...another, having made their show of getting the Post Office Department along toward paying its way in the world, the Republicans immediately afterward broke ranks in voting on another part of the same bill. The issue: a last-ditch amendment offered by Kansas' Senator Frank Carlson, ranking Republican on the Senate Post Office Committee, to limit a postal pay raise to 8½% (v. 12½% in the bill and 6% recommended by the President). The limitation was snowed under 54 to 29 when 15 Republicans, many regular Eisenhower supporters, deserted to the Democrats. Net result: the ungainly bill...
...Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post by both Senator [George] Smathers and myself and, in fact, by our whole delegation from Florida." He was recommended by Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins...