Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major MacBride were separated. After the Easter Rising in 1916, the major was executed by the British. In 1921, Maud became the first representative of the Free State in Paris. Soon, however, the Free State began to bear down on her beloved Irish Republican Army. Maud resigned her official post. At 70 she was still mounting carts in Dublin to inveigh against De Valera for his treatment of the Republicans...
Prio's political background is in the Cuban tradition. An old anti-Machado, anti-Batista fighter, he was jailed twice for revolutionary activities, was once exiled to Miami. In October 1945, Grau made him Prime Minister, a post which he held until last April, when the cabinet, faced with a no-confidence vote in Congress, resigned. Grau promptly made Prio the new Labor Minister. In July he fought a saber duel with Senator Eduardo Chibás, opposition leader. He nicked Chibás a bit, came through himself with only bruises...
Specific Baruch demands: "More and better doctors-in more places"; more general practitioners; more hospitals; more group practice; more preventive medicine; "a new Cabinet post for health, education [and] social security"; a "watchdog committee" to help guard veterans' medicine against politicians...
...millions of words of straight copy -some excellent, some merely ridiculous -were not enough, the press engaged in a few didoes. The Washington Post flew Mrs. Lois Guerrieri, who sent the bride a green taffeta dress and thereby got an invitation to a tea party, to London as its special correspondent. (But it was the New York Herald Tribune's Don Cook who "doctored" her stories. She got homesick, flew home the day before the wedding.) One wire serviceman (U.P.'s Robert Muesel) filed a 2,400-word "past tense" account of the wedding in advance, padded...
...Associated Press and the Harvard Athletic Association officially put the padlock on the 1947 fall sports system with final tabulations of the autumn records of Crimson teams released over the post-Thanksgiving weekend. Rating the Quakers from Pennsylvania first in the Ivy League, the AP's standings showed the Crimson in a tie with Brown for sixth place in the League with a record of one win against three losses in Ivy games...