Word: postes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simpson. Last week, however, Banker O'Leary appeared hesitant, and Chicagoans considered another logical candidate for the post. As head of Marshall Field & Co., James Simpson runs Chicago's greatest, perhaps the world's greatest department store. Born in Glasgow, Scotland (1874), James Simpson arrived in the U. S. at the age of six. The year 1860 was a milestone in Chicago's history, for in that year its population climbed above the half million mark. James Simpson was an obscure six-year-old among the 10,000 newcomers who made Chicago a real metropolis...
...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
...deceptively nervous gentleman who wins so often but so charmingly and wittily at bridge, too. Diplomatic Washington will remember the master negotiant who won so much for China at President Harding's Nine Power conference.* for the cablegram told Dr. Sze to cross the Atlantic and resume the post of Chinese Minister at London, which he held throughout the War. Of the six Sze offspring (4 girls), half are being educated on each side of the Atlantic. Thus, although Dr. and Mrs. Sze will leave Maimie at Wellesley, where she was coxswain and captain of the Freshman crew last spring...
Myron Timothy Herrick, beloved and Francophile U. S. Ambassador to France, sailed from Manhattan last week?as usual on the French Liner Isle de France? to resume his post in Paris. Pale, he had just recovered from one more severe illness at his home in Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland...
Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was Administrator General of Persian Finances until he quarreled with the Finance Minister of King Rega Pahlevi (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), resigned last week as Financial Ad viser to the Republic of Haiti, a post which he has held since 1927. Ever inclined to be secretive, Professor Mills paugh declined to indicate the reason...