Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
...resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova, until last week director of the New Dawn perfume & face powder factory...
Most Rev. Pierre Gerlier, well-loved and smooth-spoken bishop of the French diocese which includes the famed shrine of Lourdes, who was raised last summer to be Archbishop of Lyons. This post carries with it the ancient, honorable but now empty designation, Primate of Gaul...
Same day the New Yorker appeared with the above ditty, Author Kent was reported arriving in Puerto Rico, where his Washington Post Office Building mural, embellished with an Eskimo message to Puerto Ricans ("Go ahead. Let us change chiefs''), made him a minor hero among Nationalists. At San Juan Mr. Kent offered to testify in the trial of eleven Nationalists charged with killing a policeman, warded off requests for a statement by declaring "If I made one, I'd make it in Eskimo," prepared to sail on to South America...
...direct result of the late Huey Long's insistent attentions to this oldest (founded in 1737)charity hospital in the country. In 1928 Long "captured" the hospital, discharged an experienced director, and put in charge Dr. Arthur Vidrine, 31, a promising graduate of Tulane University who had done post-graduate work in surgery in London, Oxford and Paris hospitals, as well as in Charity Hospital where Tulane and University of Louisiana medi-cal students all get their preliminary practice. In Dr. Vidrine's particular favor for this important post was the fact that he had learned something...