Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have sufficient cigar stores, everybody in town reads the Denver Post which should score us high for mediocre reading. We have never had a Who's Who candidate, but do have 2,200 "Who Cares" members. Our few Negroes are fine citizens. As for churches, we have Mormon, Episcopal, Baptist, Community, Catholic, and Church of God, but none are too well attended. Our water system is municipally owned and we pay 10? per kilowatt for electricity. The birth rate is too low, there being 3.1 children to a Thermopolis family. We have many professional women but none...
...know how ridiculous it is." On the Board's order to reinstate 29 workers with back pay, the Bennett comment was: "They'll have an awful fight over that one. We won't take those men back." On the Board's order to post notice of compliance : "That's against Ford Co. policy...
Chiang Conquers AIL The marriage of General Chiang was important because it made him the post-mortem brother-in-law of the Kuomintang's late sainted Sun; brother-in-law of Big Banker T. V. Soong; and brother-in-law of Dr. H. H. Kung, famed descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius, who also married a Soong girl. Chiang returned to China to head the Kuomintang Government at Nanking. He was soon styled the Generalissimo, and headed a campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most...
...Russian-speaking Jerome Davis, Leftist professor of the Yale Divinity School, scooped the English language press with the first interview with J. Stalin since Lenin's death in 1924. He sold it to Hearst. Last week rangy, 46-year-old Dr. Davis, who was ousted from his Yale post seven months ago allegedly for his outspoken Leftism, now the C.I.O. standard-bearing president of the American Federation of Teachers, again broke into print with a report on another dictator, Getulio Vargas of Brazil...
Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan...