Word: postmasterships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Last month Missouri's Senator Frank Briggs received a routine patronage notice from the postal department: the $4,500-a-year postmastership at Clinton, Mo. (pop. 6.041) was open...