Word: postmastership
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...delivery to keep costs down. The public, the survey found, is most interested in the dependability of mail delivery. The commission will throw in one palliative in its report to Congress: a recommendation that the Postal Service close no more post offices unless there is a vacancy in the postmastership, "or the Army Corps of Engineers floods the area" - a rare bit of bureaucratic whimsy...
...every Vice President since John Adams has known, the nation's second highest office is a dispiriting post only slightly preferable to a rural postmastership (see box preceding page). "The Vice President of the United States," said Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, "is like a man in a cataleptic state: he cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." Agnew on the subject: "It's a sort of ancillary job where you're not in the mainstream of anything. The job itself...
...Worcester there's another guy. He's like a first cousin to me for 40 years. How would you like to be shaked like that when he comes and says he's not with you? How do you like that? He says they promised him the postmastership in Worcester." Concluded Knocko: "It's pressure, pressure, pressure, post office, post office, post office...
Part of the press asserted, with an air of tolerant wisdom, that Eisenhower was paying a political debt incurred in the 1952 campaign. Actually, any debt that Ike owed Warren could have been paid by a third-class postmastership. At the G.O.P. convention in Chicago last year, Warren's California delegates did cast their votes for the Eisenhower side in the battle of the contested delegations, but that was the proper strategy for Candidate Warren, who was then hoping for a deadlock. When the balloting for President came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren...
...sense of historic mission, called on Lincoln before departing for the London legation. Lincoln had little to say of high politics. Adams, being an Adams, never got over the fact that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first son Hiralal, who drinks, was estranged from Gandhi, was once a convert to Islam. Last week second son Manilal was in Durban, South Africa...