Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came naturally to Jack Porter: back in 1954, accused of "selling" postmasterships for campaign contributions, Porter explained, "There's no law against soliciting funds from any source, as far as I know." But when it got the news of Porter's letter-as printed in the Washington Post and Times-Herald-the Administration exploded. Republican National Committee Chairman Meade Alcorn blew hot into the White House switchboard, and the word was relayed to President Eisenhower, who reddened and snapped: "Let's check the facts on this...
From Caracas, the Houston Post's Reporter Jack Donahue last week sent his paper a penetrating series on a topic close to Texans: the precarious future of U.S. oil companies in post-revolutionary Venezuela. Hitting an even more sensitive nerve, the Post ran a Page One series by Staffer Leon Hale on Texas A. & M.'s deep-rooted schism over basic educational policies. Other staff-written stories in the bright, boldly laid-out Post last week ranged from Business Editor Sam Weiner's rundown on the recession's impact to Austin Correspondent Felton West...
Coach Cappy Cappon's five relies on a three-man weave in the back court with Fulcomer at high post and Belz posting under the boards. The Tigers will probably not attempt to drive through the middle against the Crimson zone, but will shoot from outside or work the ball into Fulcomer for a jump shot around the foul line of try to get the ball to Belz...
...Counsel Schwartz behaved as if accepting $100 honorariums was a crime ranking close to arson. He hectored Doerfer so unmercifully that the American Civil Liberties Union protested and the Washington Post and Times Herald, no friend of the Eisenhower Administration, rapped Schwartz's brass knuckles...
Died. Imre Horvath, 57, Hungary's Foreign Minister, longtime (since 1918) Communist, onetime gun-toting activist (in Bela Kun's post-World War I Red rebellion) and Minister to the U.S. (1949-51), who saw his own son Imre and his nephew Alexander turn freedom fighters in the 1956 revolt, then flee to Austria; after a gallstone operation; in Budapest...