Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delinquent life in Cambridge centers around the gang and the street corner. Driven out of the home by an unpleasant family situation, the typical Cambridge delinquent finds companionship and prestige as a member of the gang. Within the gang itself, he may also gain prestige as a leader. This post usually falls to the boy who can outfight his contemporaries...
...Eden announced that he was also resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down...
...became the youngest president of any class I U.S. railroad a year after joining Chicago Great Western in 1948. He rehabilitated the shaky line, enabled the road to pay dividends on its common stock in 1953 for the first time in over a decade. In his new post Deramus faces similar financial problems: the Katy has paid no dividends since 1930. To some railroaders, Deramus' appointment hinted a Great Western-Katy merger. Though Katy officials last week denied it, a group of principal stockholders in both the Great Western and Katy reportedly have already obtained options...
Died. Gabriela Mistral (real name: Lucila Godoy Alcayaga), 67, tall, straight-haired Chilean poet and schoolteacher who won adulation throughout Latin America for her Sonnets of Death (1914), written after the suicide of a lover, was awarded the permanent post of roving consul (her assignment: to live where she pleased) by the grateful Chilean government, in 1945 received the Nobel Prize for poetry; of cancer; in Hempstead...
...official word has come forth on the subject since the termination of Jordan's contract, but it has been reported that applications for the post are being considered. At the time of its recommendation that Jordan be dismissed, the powerful Faculty Committee on Athletics recommended also that backfield coach Harold M. "Josh" Williams be appointed to succeed him, but no decision was announced on that proposal...