Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very much of a hero seemed tired ex-G-Man Turrou, until the day after his resignation, when the nature of his "opportunity to turn to writing" became known. For a reputed $40,000, Publisher Julius David Stern, ferociously anti-Nazi publisher of the Philadelphia Record and New York Post, had bought from Mr. Turrou, 15 minutes after he resigned, an "authentic" inside story behind U. S. Grand Jury Indictments of 14 German officials! On two excited pages, embellished with a Nazi air bomb plunging down on U. S. warships in the Panama Canal, Publisher Stern shouted...
...after his father's nomination in 1932, the fortunes of his lanky eldest flowered like the lilies in paradise. This week a number of those anecdotes are told publicly in a story, "Jimmy's Got It" by Alva Johnston appearing in the anti-Roosevelt Saturday Evening Post...
...swank Georgia Hotel 500 men made themselves at home on the hotel lobby's soft, upholstered furniture. They left there after one night when a $500 bribe was raised by the city. Another 500 occupied the general post office, 200 moved into the Civic Art Gallery and there they stayed one month. Organized in orderly "military" squads, the men interfered as little as possible with business routine, were careful to clean up every morning, took exercise by marching in relays on the streets...
Apple-cheeked Premier Thomas Dufferin Pattullo had journeyed to Washington to chat with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
Author Roberts gives Deterding plenty of credit for winning the Allies' war. Sir Henri's part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. The U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oilfields and Sir Henri never got over it. He began to fulminate against the Bolsheviks in the press and. Author Roberts implies, to plot against them in secret. But the Bolsheviks were too smart for him. Author Roberts thinks his backing of Hitler and his admiration for Mussolini are based on his hatred of Communism, which was born of frustration when he lost...