Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoegh plunged back into civic and political activity with the same fast pace, was elected the first World War II com mander of the American Legion post, became chairman of the Chariton Development Co. to woo new industry, president of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club, a leader in the National Guard. In 1948 he stumped for liberal Harold Stassen, in 1950 ran in the primary against entrenched Republican Congressman Karl LeCompte. "For the Republican Party," said eager Campaigner Hoegh, "do-nothing and me-too are out. The party should draw its inspiration from the people and free...
...editorial page: "The editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...
Vellucci started his political career using much the same strategy when he ran for the school committee in 1951. By raising a ruckus over "stuffy classrooms" and "lighting so bad it was blinding the kids," Vellucci won himself a post on the committee and was re-elected two years later by an even bigger vote. 'I made a hell of a fuss," Vellucci reminisces. "I ran against professors and seasoned politicians, big businessmen and lawyers, and I beat them...
...ailing. 125-year-old Boston Post, twice forced to suspend publishing since midsummer (TIME. Sept. 3), went down for the third time last week-and most of its 800 employees counted it drowned. Bravely, the paper's three court-appointed trustees announced that they were still negotiating with prospective buyers and hoped to get the paper sold. But in ordering a shutdown "until further notice," they admitted that no deal was in sight to justify carrying the paper's weekly operating loss. Boston's other dailies began pitching energetically for the Post's 255,000 daily...
...separate nights, made off with a total of $820. George H. Upton decided that his usual route to the club had become too risky, swam 400 ft. across the Deerfield River, clambered up a steep bank, found nothing else to steal in the clubhouse, spotted a dime that post officials had pasted on the wall "for the convenience of robbers." used it to call police, dejectedly swam back across the river, gave himself...