Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department that it did not want another woman minister. However, with W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson as her sponsors, Mrs. Harriman's cause was in good hands. Norway, the first nation to grant woman suffrage, was an obvious post for a woman diplomat. Last week Norway had only to say "yes" in order to have Daisy Harriman show the Scandinavians how entertaining should be done in a U. S. legation...
...miracle of persuasion," to which dignitaries of His Majesty's Government looked this week to bulwark the prestige of Stanley Baldwin on the eve of his slated retirement from the post of Prime Minister next month, must now be worked by Viceroy the Marquess of Linlithgow, and great should be His Excellency's reward for quick success...
...court are a flat surface and plenty of headroom, make armories the appropriate place for badminton. Last week's tournament was held in that of the Naval Reserve. Before the tournament started, officials debated whether or not to accept the entry of Hock Sim Ong, Malay post-graduate student at the University of California who learned badminton when he went to Cambridge on a British Government scholarship. Before it was over, four other contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease. In the final, with...
...Platak, agile Chicago post-office clerk: the handball championship of the U. S., for the third year in a row; 21-13, 21-6 in the final against Past Champion Sam Atcheson of Memphis, Tenn.; in Chicago...
President Roosevelt's son-in-law John Boettiger's Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer had reached the thirteenth volume in a 20-volume "World's Greatest Literature" set, for 39? each plus seven coupons. The Los Angeles Times was plugging a 20-volume set of Dickens.* Thirty other newspapers had sold 7,000,000 volumes of a "World's Greatest Literature" set for 39?the copy plus coupons...