Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formidable Republicans. A tall, gangling man of immense energy and no side, Nicholson had never before run for political office. Eight months ago he launched a one-man crusade which carried him through blizzards and bitter winter cold to every corner of the state. An investment banker, former Legion post commander, and vigorous internationalist, he will level his chief fire on Big Ed's conservatism and longstanding isolationist record...
...even scared the wits out of roaring Dan Tobin, the teamsters' international president and Beck's boss. Recently Beck demanded that Tobin fire Lester Hunt, editor of the union paper and Tobin's ally. Meekly old Dan complied. This week, writing in the Washington Post, Hunt wigwagged a frantic warning...
...reason is: too many different stamps. So far in 1948, a total of 17 commemorative stamps have been issued by the Post Office Department, and twelve more are still to come...
Paper Dolls. Victor McCloskey, bespectacled dean of U.S. stamp designers, was laboring last week on a stamp scheduled for issue in November, honoring a Miss Moina Michael of Georgia. It took about as much imagination as cutting paper dolls, for McCloskey was following -by order of the Post Office Department -a sketch submitted by Congressman Paul Brown (of Georgia, naturally), who had sponsored the stamp in the first place...
McCloskey figured on finishing his black & white design in a couple of eight-hour days, for Post Office Department approval. If all went well, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson would scratch his name under the design and send it back to the Bureau for engraving. Later, he would decide on the stamp's color...