Word: postmastership
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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...
Georgia's Republican politicians rebutted these tales, and many another like them, with instances where candidates for office had offered to buy their way in. One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't. "I am not a grafter," he said...