Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only three House dining halls in summer operation, the new superintendent will be able to work into the post gradually...
...Oregon, the logging town of Shevlin (pop. 600), complete with houses, offices, stores, post office, was moved to a new location for the fifth time in 26 years. Everything was hoisted onto railroad cars, hauled 40 miles to a new timber stand...
...Spain is a festering sore on the conscience of the Western powers." So writes Emmet John Hughes in the best-informed book* yet published on post-civil-war Spain. The present U.S. attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...
...never saw anything like it," said Superintendent Cook. "I've seen children cheer for their schools . . . but I never saw hundreds of children cry for their schools." The meeting turned into a riot. One Catholic board member was beaten, and two parents were arrested. Editorialized the Cincinnati Post: "The majority of the school board has forfeited completely the confidence of a large number of citizens...
...Nice Mess." Knight writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...