Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made nearly three weeks earlier by Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis, that it fell through because Mr. Lewis could not reach his lieutenants in Detroit within the time agreed on and because "lawyers and other industrialists" put pressure on Mr. Chrysler to make Governor Murphy oust the sit-downers. Of the post-evacuation negotiations, Hugh Johnson said...
...injured Southern feelings, the Post Office Department promised to memorialize Confederate Generals Robert Edward Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson on a 4? stamp. Last week when the Lee-Jackson stamp, bearing a picture of Stratford Hall,General Lee's Virginia birthplace, for good measure, was placed on sale it looked as if the Post Office Department were in trouble again. General Lee was apparently wearing the uniform of a lieutenant colonel as there were only two stars on his coat collar. "Marse" Robert, Commander of the Confederate States Armies, ranked as a general, rated three.* What...
Mongokuo has long had its own post office, issues its own stamps for internal use. Letters going "abroad" are handled by Manchukuo's post office. Mongokuo even flies its own flag, blue with a square of horizontal red, yellow, white and black stripes in one corner...
...advertising promotion "bounced" from Manhattan's Chemical Bank & Trust Co. Since Mr. Heath had functioned as treasurer of Observer Co., up to this point not a soul had suspected that the paper's books would not bear auditing. Headed by Managing Director Eugene MacLean, onetime Washington Post general manager, the Observer editors promptly asked a court for an assignee to preserve the weekly's remaining assets. Next thing the staff knew, New York State Assistant Attorney General Bernard Abramson was in the office on "an anonymous tip" looking over the ledgers, and shaking his head at what...
...batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until all the animals were pedestaled-25 lions and lionesses, 15 tigers and tigresses. A tiger with ominously writhing tail left its post, slunk toward the small figure in white. Beatty put his head down almost to the sawdust, pretended to be staring the animal into submission. Actually he was giving invisible "cues." The tiger bellied down, backed slowly away...