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Word: posted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to the post-Civil War promise of Northern carpetbaggers to freed slaves: "Forty acres and a mule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Something for the Boys | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...transportation at Harvard Business School, director in 1945 of the State Department's Office of Transport and Communications Policy and chief spokesman for the postwar Air Coordinating Committee; Arthur Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet and frequent adviser to Government agencies; Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, energetic publisher of the Denver Post, onetime head of the domestic branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: For A-Day | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Durham M. Miller '47 defeated 12 other candidates to win the post of New England's first Regional Organizer, the American Veterans' Committee announced Wednesday. The new full-time position was made necessary by expanding AVC membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regional AVC Elects Miller | 1/16/1948 | See Source »

...next development was that of substantive due process, by which the Court distorted the post-civil war amendments from a protection of Negro rights into a protection of corporations to conduct their business in any way they saw fit. However, for almost half a century the Court has been in the process of slowly altering its point of view. It struck down the "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution. It has made it exceedingly difficult for the Democratic party in the South to exclude Negroes from the party primaries except by threat or use of force. It has overruled convictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up From Freedom | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

...publications seem to possess is Biff Glassford's. It must be admitted that the young New Hampshire coach has all the qualifications for the post, even if Bill Bingham is sincere in his present quandary and no living human really knows the identity of the next mastermind on Soldiers Field. The new coach will probably be in his thirties, will be a standout in his present job, and will undoubtedly be unfamiliar to most football fanciers in America...

Author: By Robert W. Morgas jr., | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

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