Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canapes were scarce in Democratic circles. But she really hadn't expected any reward, she said, "not one single thing." "It would be a lot easier to stay in Washington and I'd have a lot more fun," she told a columnist. "But I think this post is an advancement for women and I ought to accept...
Veterans of the Luxembourg post calculated that the job of running U.S. diplomatic affairs there would leave her about 23 hours of. free time each...
...Pack of Picket-Picketers. Nobody faced starvation or even malnutrition, but some foods were almost impossible to get (although the striking stevedores were unloading relief ships from the mainland at the usual rates of pay). A few bags of potatoes and onions shipped by parcel post were gobbled up at the fancy price of 25? a pound. Rice, a staple of Hawaii's diet, was scarce. There was barely enough canned milk to feed the babies and scarcely enough feed to keep livestock and chickens alive. Mrs. Dorothy Lai had to close her little chop suey joint for lack...
...recording it. First with the best: Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark (Columbia), Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (Capitol). Mercury even got Frank and Lynn Loesser on wax. MGM, which peddles records as well as motion pictures, and originally had the inside track on Baby, was left at the post and lamely put out a record of the song from the film's soundtrack...
...Louis last week, the Post-Dispatch (circ.: 271,047) hired the first Negro reporter in its 71-year history. The P-D's new man: John Henry Hicks, 21, of East St. Louis, Ill., a University of Illinois journalism graduate...