Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your July 6 article on New Guinea's "South Pacific Post" jungle newspaper, and particularly in reference to its smokable qualities, I would like to point out that two other very prominent newspapers have been even more widely smoked. During the war years in Europe, the conquering Russian soldiers rolled their "makhorka" in Pravda or Izvestia...
Turncoat. In Noblestown, Pa., Philip Mager, suspected of stealing $75 from a post office, was discovered in the posse that was hunting...
Basic & Bothered. The grimness came with the sudden realization by pickets and public that management had its teeth clenched. Setting a post-World War II precedent for a major industry, the steel companies let the negotiations sputter to an end without making even a minimum money offer for the workers to think about. The steelworkers had offered to settle for the same terms they won in 1956 after a 36-day strike: a three-year contract with a yearly raise of about 15? an hour, plus a cost-of-living escalator clause. Management's counteroffer: either...
...years in the White House, Dwight Eisenhower has not only become a faithful daily newspaper reader (New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Washington Post), but he has learned to read between the lines of inspired political stories as well. Thus, over the past few weeks, he began to feel that he was being pressured by inspired "leaks" about the future of Charles E. Bohlen, bright star State Department careerman of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, longtime (1953-57) Ambassador to Russia, and since 1957 U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. His friends let out word that Bohlen would soon come...
Presidential recollections go on and on. Last week the Washington Post and Times Herald drew some lively ones from old (70) Headwaiter William Reid, long the Pullman Co.'s major-domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when...