Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister. But Erhard, a Franconian, a Protestant and a reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle. It was not till the Bizonal authorities called him to Frankfurt in 1947 that Erhard found his place, his platform and his apocalyptic powers...
Staffers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch puzzled last week over a change in chairs. Illinois-born Irving Billiard, 52, a 30-year P-D veteran, stepped down as chief of the editorial page to become an editorial writer. His replacement: Editorial Writer Robert Lasch, 50, former chief of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial page, who was brought to the paper by Billiard seven years...
...Denver Post, and also to reporters with such fine Gaelic names as Scripps-Howard's Andrew Tully and the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin, the Queen was "a doll, a living" doll." The Post also, thought she was "a honey." Manhattan tabloid headlines called her Liz, and the Chicago Daily News's Robert E. Hoyt paid the ultimate democratic compliment: "But for the grace of God, she'd be plain Lizzie Battenberg...
...reporters assigned to the tour−1,350 accredited by the U.S. alone−did not mind the extra work so much as the fact that, as the Washington Post and Times Herald's Edward T. Folliard put it, "this isn't a story, it's just a storybook." Everything happened according to schedule, putting, a heavy strain on the same old adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant...
Reciprocal Trade. In Port Moresby, New Guinea, the South Pacific Post reported that Kairuku Territory Cooperatives had been plagued recently by embezzlement, added: "It is an interesting comment on the efficiency of the Cooperative training courses to note that the standard of embezzlement was in each case particularly high...