Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of Commerce," joked Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to a visitor last week. The comment was fitting: the courtly, well-tailored caller had an aura of dignity and success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly six years in the post, "Sinny" Weeks, 65, had decided to step down, and, to replace him, President Eisenhower had tabbed longtime (1953 to last June) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...Harvard. Brainy, West Virginia-born Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws) never went to college, started out as a traveling shoe salesman. As secretary to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover during World War I, Strauss noted with satisfaction last week that as Commerce Secretary he will be serving in a post once held by his onetime boss and longtime friend...
...publishers Thursday obtained a temporary injunction from U.S. District Court here prohibiting the Post Office Department from interfering with distribution prior to a hearing on the mailability issue...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31--The Post Office Department today deferred a decision on whether its current tilt with Playboy magazine will be taken to the Supreme Court...
Herbert B. Warburton, post office general counsel, issued an opinion last Wednesday that this issue contained unmailable material. He ordered the postmaster at Chicago, where the magazine is published, to hold up further mailings pending a hearing...