Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastened on their islands, turned to Washington for help. In three days last week, 3,930 Hawaiians (including at least a few I.L.W.U. men opposed to the strike) contributed $10,650 to a Honolulu Advertiser campaign to pay for huge two-page ads describing their plight in the Washington Post and Evening Star and the New York Times. "We know that the people of the 48 states do not know what the people of Hawaii are up against," said the ads. "And we can't seem to find anyone in America that gives a damn. Isn't there...
John Jay McCloy, new U.S. high commissioner of Germany, had to reshape his plans for a leisurely trip to his new post. John Jr., 11, and Ellen, nearly 8, insisted on taking along the family pets (Hansel, a canary, Judy, a boxer, and Punchy, a beagle). But Britain's six-month rabies quarantine presented a problem. Diplomat McCloy decided to send the wife and kids and Hansel on to Britain by boat. To avoid the British quarantine, he would fly nonstop from the U.S. to Germany himself, personally escorting Punchy and Judy direct to their new home...
Last week Harvard honored Leon Campbell for "his coordination of the findings of amateur stargazers" by presenting him with an honorary Master of Arts. Amateur Campbell also announced that he expected to retire as Pickering Memorial Astronomer, a special post created to further Campbell's work with amateurs. As for the future: "I'm not going to quit astronomical work-just carry on in a more leisurely fashion...
Owlish, excitable Ralph Coghlan (rhymes with oglin') has a singular facility for making people mad. In ten often-turbulent years as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial page, he has assailed, annoyed and angered many a judge, politician and businessman. Sometimes his editorial trumpeting was in the best crusading tradition of the Post-Dispatch; at other times, it was shrill...
...door of the editor's office at the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (circ. 3,000) one day last week, a huge cartoon was tacked. It showed a portly, bespectacled foreigner carrying a suitcase toward a steamship. The pidgin-English caption: "All finish!" The Chinese caption:"Scram, Gould...