Word: postmastership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deeply appreciative" was Mrs, Ewilda Gertrude Miller Robinson, widow of Arkansas's late Senator Joe Robinson, when last week, at President Roosevelt's request, she was appointed to the $6,000-a-year postmastership of Little Rock...
...Press was almost solidly against Talmadge, chief exceptions being the Savannah morning News and evening Press, which also sup ports Landon, and the vigorous, influential Macon Telegraph, whose able Publisher William Thomas Anderson has not forgot ten that Senator Russell kept his brother out of Macon's postmastership. Fiercest Talmadge opposition was from the Atlanta Constitution, which is still coasting along on the reputation the late great Henry Grady made for it in the last century. Says Talmadge: "You know the Const'ution is helpin' me by tellin' all them lies. People jest know they...
...railway mail service as the conclusion of one of the most unjust and scandalous political incidents Curleydom has seen this year. After thirty-seven years of efficient and honest service in the Post Office Department of the Government of the United States, Mr. Hurley had finally reached the Postmastership of Boston. Suddenly he was removed. And reason enough, we say,--Mr. Curley did not like...
...place Peter F. Tague was yesterday sworn into office as Boston's new Postmaster. Equally with reason. He had been the election commissioner of Boston, which surely is a far better qualification for the postmastership than a mere thirty-seven years in the postal service, after all, a postmaster in these days when wishes are Farleys, and beggars may ride, has important responsibilities besides the prosaic work of delivering the mails. Mr. Tague had shown, both as Congressman and as Election Commissioner, that he could admirably fulfill all demands made by the New Deal upon its officials...
Such was the nature of the moment, the President could hold, had to hold. Patronage in abeyance. There was no time to haggle over the postmastership of Jefferson's Gulch while all the country's banks were shut. Except for top-notch positions (TIME, March 20), a White...