Word: postmistresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guest of honor at Boss Farley's big party was the shy and unassuming woman who has outlasted 13 Presidents of the U. S. -81-year-old Miss Mary W. Stewart, still postmistress of Oxford, Md., after 62 years...
...Declaration by the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee that two Federal job-holders-Collector of Internal Revenue H. Hampton Magruder at Baltimore, Postmistress Maude Toulson at Salisbury-had violated Federal laws in politicking for Candidate Lewis...
...ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. Her paternal grandmother's family, she believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...
Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
...year salary and a schoolteacher's pension of some $1,200 a year, Postmistress Harrington supports two elderly female cousins. Last week from her West Point desk, over which hangs a photograph of Mr. Farley, she sent in her application for examination. Said she: "I've always loved the Army and wanted to be where the Army was. ... All those on the post are my friends. . . . But I'll have to get another job somehow. I don't know just where...