Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood now, the plan called for two major changes. Above the whole military establishment, it set up the single post of Secretary of National Defense. He would have Cabinet rank-but not his assistants, the Secretaries of the Army, Navy -and Air Force. For, peace to the restless shade of farsighted Billy Mitchell, there was at last to be a separate and independent Air Force...
...week's speculation in Washington, it was Forrestal and Symington who were mentioned most prominently for the new post of Secretary of National Defense. Forrestal would please the Navy; his fairness made him acceptable to the Army. In that case, handsome Stu Symington, one of the President's Missouri friends, was almost certainly in line for the Secretaryship...
Communist Party posters dotted the countryside, some showing a frontier post and proclaiming "Best assurance of the Oder-Neisse border [Poland's provisional western boundary] is a vote for the Democratic Bloc...
...serving as his mother's social secretary. He had pumped $15 million into the ailing Trib before she started showing up for work at the office in 1918, and gradually took over. She is one of three women who run major U.S. newspapers. The others: the New York Post's Dorothy Schiff Thackrey, the Washington Times-Herald's terrible-tempered Cissie Patterson...
...Bevin for months," will trail diplomats. Lanky A. T. Steele, a veteran of Far East coverage, will stick to what he knows best. Pulitzer Prizewinning Homer Bigart's assignment: trouble. As a war correspondent he got schooling for covering riots, revolutions, and world violence, lately has been doing post-graduate work in Palestine and Poland. Says Joe Barnes: "We can't use men who have been stuck in one capital for 20 years as modern reporters...