Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show through. With a heavy hand he began censoring newspapers, finally suppressed Bogotá's two leading dailies, El Tiempo and El Espectador. From there his path led only downward. His soldiers and cops shot down political opponents and students. By spending uncounted millions on arms and post-exchange luxuries aimed at keeping his military supporters loyal, he used up most of the coffee-prosperous country's-gold reserves and ran up an exorbitant foreign-trade debt. As Colombia went broke, Rojas grew rich. He made himself the nation's No. 1 cattleman, using loans from intimidated...
Some of his visitors were deputations from the Communists offering his release. If he agreed to give up his post of primate, said one delegation in 1955, he could preach, hear confessions and say Mass. "I prefer to pray for you gentlemen here," replied Cardinal Wyszynski coolly...
POSTAGE RATES will probably not go up this year, even though House Post Office Committee by 2-1 majority approved one-penny boost for first-class, airmail rates...
...bill, to finance the Treasury and Post Office departments and the tax court, was $80,363,000 smaller than President Eisenhower had asked...
...president's office in 1942. Two years later, he was made assistant to the president, and in 1948 became vice president in charge of finance. To put Marsh in line to succeed Gurley, whose retirement in two years is mandatory, the Santa Fe reinstituted the long-abandoned post of board chairman, also gave Gurley the newly created title of chief executive officer-though Marsh will have operating charge of the railroad. ¶Stanley de Jongh Osborne, 52, was named president of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. in the first top management changes since the merger of Olin Industries...