Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...
Unruffled at first, Hagerty grew tense as the prospect of an operation drew closer. But under the strain, he worked energetically-and seldom gave way to his short temper as he shot the facts along. In the Saturday dawn, he read a Washington Post and Times Herald editorial righteously observing that "the White House Staff will do well to continue its policy of keeping the people frankly and completely informed." Snapped Hagerty: "What the hell do they think I've been doing...
...effectively in the redefinition of democracy after the Civil War. One reason why slaveholders had opposed emancipation was the fact that they had not formulated a plan for the place of freedmen in American society. During Reconstruction, Negro members of state conventions and legislatures supported measures to abolish the post-Civil War Black Codes by which the all-white legislatures had attempted to keep the freedmen as nearly as possible in their former servile status...
...meeting, originally scheduled for two hours, lasted over three, and because of the evening Pops Concert, Post cancelled a scheduled question period...
...proven and the band played on. The yardlings rolled on behind Ticknor's field goal to defeat Dartmouth 9 to 6 and Sam L. Batchelder's three touchdowns to mop up the J.V.'s, 26 to 0. A young freshman named Clarence Douglas Dillion advanced to his first post as he was elected Freshman Football Manager...