Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week most U. S. citizens had recovered their normal temperature after a feverish election. Once again World War II took over the headlines. The radio returned to straightforward entertainment. Here & there a deadlocked election still awaited the final count. There were the customary post-election cries of fraud, demands for recounts, for changes in the rules. But for most people the campaign was over and done with. Some tag ends...
Until Kenneth Roberts was 40, it looked as if Grandmother Tibbets had talked to no purpose. Roberts seemed perfectly content as a newspaperman. Out of Cornell (where he had edited the Widow), he went to work on the Boston Post, stayed there eight years as reporter, feature writer, humorous columnist. He went to Manhattan for brief spells on Puck and the old Life. Then World War I took him to Siberia as a captain in the military intelligence. Thus began nine years of roving in which he covered Europe, Asia and Washington, D. C. for the Saturday Evening Post. Twelve...
...Vichy also sends diplomatic envoys to foreign sovereign States. In interim diplomatic relations with Germany, France has definite bargaining points which, though they might mean suicide for France, might also mean serious checks and stumbles to Germany. Last week sovereign France used these points to advantage in her first post-armistice crisis with Germany...
...career as a sob sister. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she had worked on the Ledger in Mexico, Mo., the Cleveland Press, the late New York Evening Mail. She had done work for the Interchurch World Movement, turned out articles for the Saturday Evening Post, collaborated with Prince Christopher of Greece on the history of his family. Back in the creative groove again, she has just turned out a book on her childhood called How Dear to My Heart...
...retired, set out to visit him. He was not, as he claimed, the parish priest in her home town in Moravia. After "a labyrinthine meandering through her nephew's long-forgotten past," she found him in haunted Prague. He was a peddler of horoscopes, fireworks, feelthy post cards...