Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smarter Foreign Service officers are able to get their point and their observations across under a camouflage of outwardly harmless verbiage. The less acute reporters either say what they know the "right people" want to hear, or say the wrong, though perhaps honest thing and sometimes lose their post, their promotion, or their job. When a report is written with the idea that it will be read ten years from now or that what it says must not offend an important group of people, the report is likely to be somewhat less than honest...
...following is a description of one of the first meetings of the Club, held at Delmonico's on February 22, 1866. It appeared in the New York Post the next...
...Godkin Lecture fund was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, founder of "The Nation" and editor of the New York Evening Post, to provide yearly lectures on "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." Recent Godkin lecturers have included Adlai E. Stevenson, John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Ralph Flanders of Vermont; Harold E. Stassen, and last year, Chester W. Bowles, former U.S. Ambassador to India...
...said rather bravely, in his St. Louis hotel room last night, that there were a lot of nice people at Harvard and he like working here. Whether he believes this doesn't matter; but it is important that this successor believe it. Rumors that Josh Williams will get the post seem to imply that Harvard wants to keep its football small-time and doesn't mind if it loses a game now and then. If Williams gets the post, it will be going to a home-trained man, not an imported professional, and that would be a good thing. What...
...Hamlen returned to Cambridge from his industrial management post in Little Rock, Ark., to organize the Har-general secretary of the Alumni Council. The University awarded Hamlen an honorary Master of Arts degree...