Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi: John Sherman Cooper's post, vacant since Cooper resigned to run for the Senate, will be taken by Ellsworth Bunker, retiring American National Red Cross president* and a topnotch ambassador to Italy and Argentina under Harry Truman...
...this way", said California's Democratic Representative Harry Sheppard last week. "The patronage committee is charged with taking care of Democrats. Period." Sheppard was explaining the action, just completed, of the House Democratic Patronage Committee in firing a Negro employee of the House post office and a Negro member of the Capitol police force. Cause for dismissal: both had received their appointments through New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Negro who supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President because of his civil-rights record...
Last week Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, in announcing that he planned to stay on at his post (a decision that seemed satisfactory even to his many party enemies, who were quite willing to let him undertake the thankless job of paying off the Democrats' $1,000,000 deficit from the last campaign), said the Digest will no longer be aimed at a "limited intellectual audience." It will be converted from a "political luxury the party cannot afford" to a direct channel of communication between the national commit tee and Democratic precinct workers...
Michael Joseph Mansfield's promotion to a command post would provide a new twist to a strange career: he quit school in the eighth grade, ran off and joined the Navy (he lied about his age, then 14), served a year during World War I, was discharged, promptly entered the Army for a year, received another honorable discharge, enlisted in the Marine Corps, stayed two years-and came out, not as any sort of commander, but as a private first class...
Loucks is not only a good quarterback on offense (27 out of 52 passes, five TD's) but is also one of Olivar's best defenders from his backer-up post...