Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best M'bida could manage was a kind of double knockout. Gérard Jaquet, Minister for France Overseas, transferred Ramadier to another post, but gave M'bida no help at all. The Premier dejectedly flew back to the Cameroons' capital of Yaounde, where, realizing that he faced certain defeat in Parliament, he resigned. As successor, the French chose Amadou Ahidjo, 33, who had served as Vice Premier and Interior Minister in M'bida's government. Ahidjo announced his policy: independence (but without a timetable), union of the British and French Cameroons, cooperation with France...
With such alert, far-ranging news coverage and a thoughtful, middle-of-the-road Republican editorial page, the morning Post ("written and edited to merit your confidence") has won 65-statewide and national journalistic awards in the past five years, staked out a reputation as the Southwest's most readable daily. It has also seized the rank of Houston's No. I paper from the staunchly segregationist evening Chronicle, which in its dyspeptic distrust of Eisenhower Republicanism, the U.N., and U.S. allies often sounds like an oil-belt echo of the Chicago Tribune...
...circulation and advertising, Jesse Jones's Chronicle had long towered over its rivals as commandingly as Jones's San Jacinto Monument* bestrides its battlefield. For the first time in more than 20 years, the Post (circ. 213,198) last October inched ahead of the windy, lethargic Chronicle (212.641,) in weekday circulation (though the Chronicle still has a strapping 14,000 Sunday lead...
...push at the Post† comes from plump, stogie-chomping Executive Editor (and Board Member) Arthur Emmett Laro, 46, whose first move on taking over as managing editor in 1947 was to fire twelve staffers. He got a free hand from his publishers, Texas' onetime (1917-20) Governor William P. Hobby and his wife, Oveta Gulp, wartime WAC commander and the nation's first (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary. In ten years Laro has quadrupled his editorial staff (to 110) and kept Houston humming with such solidly documented exposés as hawk-faced City Editor...
...Known earlier as the Houston Post-Dispatch, the paper successfully defended its right to that name in a court battle with Pulitzer's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, voluntarily shortened...