Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovered a Wimpy-like scheme thought up by tough, well-tailored Harold Gibbons, boss of Teamster Local 688 (9,000 members) and idea man for Teamster Czar Jimmy Hoffa. A free spender who ran through $63,000 in hotel tabs and other expenses in three years, Gibbons has set up a Local 688 charitable foundation to channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar...
Marine General Randolph Pate, 61, completes his commandant's tour at year's end, will probably step aside. Among the three or four three-star generals in line for the post: Nate Twining's Annapolis-educated brother Merrill, 56, brilliant tactician, now Commandant of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico...
...Alert. As soon as De Gaulle took power, he restored Ely to his old job, encouraged him in the quiet dispersal of May 13 plotters, including General Raoul Salan, the overall commander in Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...
...there is bad blood between them. In the Lebanese rebellion of last summer, the 8,000 Maronite Roman Catholics of Kobeyat supported the government of President Camille Chamoun; the 2,000 Moslems of Jaafra enthusiastically backed the rebels. At one point armed raiders from Jaafra stormed the police post in Kobeyat, killed a Christian woman and wounded five other villagers before being driven...
...Washington Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal), who organized the Opera Society in 1956. In a city that has long been known as a cultural backwater, the company was financed by contributions averaging $100, plus some sizable gifts from Washington society's "cave dwellers," including Mrs. Herbert May (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post), Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...