Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that were troubling the Bureau were to be transported with the customary Chinese between each pair, the problem might have been passed on to the Immigration Service. As it was, the ears were to be imported unattached. After thumbing many documents and consulting the Public Health Service and the Post Office Department, the Customs Bureau decided that Chinese ears, in fact any unattached human ears, might be imported free of duty in refrigerated packages, but that they might not be sent through the mails...
...sadness. Mrs. Warfield's Aunt Bessie, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, bustled about the Chateau de Cande kitchens personally overseeing the wedding breakfast for the 16 invited guests who were to attend. Mail and wedding presents came in by the sackful, swamping the post office at nearby Tours. Explained the unofficial Press Minister, Herman Rogers...
...until 1920, he served as Governor-General of Algeria for four years, then was given the difficult task of succeeding France's late great colonial administrator, bristle-topped Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey, as Resident General of Morocco. He did well enough in the four years he held the post to win him the task he was faced with last week, the most serious crisis French Morocco has seen since the time of Abd-el-Krim...
Last week, with every French army post along the southern slope of the Atlas doubly reinforced with new troops. Theo dore Steeg had the uncomfortable knowledge as he approached Morocco that if miraculous rain came, or if he could some how halt the advancing Blue Men. he would be a hero to the nation. Otherwise he might have to shoulder the blame for a great and bloody massacre...
...twelve-year high, and in the subsequent world-wide break in commodity prices corn suffered relatively little. Last week in a belated scramble to buy corn for May delivery, the price was squeezed to $1.40 per bu., highest level since 1920, in the days of post-War inflation...