Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President conferred once more with Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...these exhibitions of economy lost their significance when the public learned last week about a quiet little speech made by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to an Appropriations subcommittee in secret session last month. Testifying on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that...
...automobile, a Ford sedan, suddenly swung from the curb, where it was parked at 9:00 o'clock yesterday morning, forcing three cars to swerve aside to avoid a crash. The runway vehicle then proceeded to roll down Quincy Street and smashed into a four-foot post on the opposite side of the street...
Coach Fesler has indicated that Charley Lutz, Fred Hockel, Captain Lupe Lupien, and Bob James will be at their regular positions. The starter at the pivot post, however, will probably be undecided until just before game time. Homer Peabody and Tread Ruml are both certain to see plenty of service at center, and either may get the opening assignment...
...Safe Conduct is her try at etiquette suited to the times. By profession, writer of institutional advertising for Macy's department store, light-verse writer on the side, she is liveliest in razzing those dexterous dopes who figure with such passionless gallantry in the etiquette books of Emily Post and Margery Wilson. On the technical side, she dictates only a bare minimum of ritual. She believes that etiquette should spring from a kind heart; her Golden Rule is "use the head and heart, and let the boiled shirts fall where they may." Etiquetteer Fishback's rules...