Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...answer might have been found in an editorial in the Scripps-Howard El Paso Herald-Post, which had said accusingly: "John Garner has not been aiding in the struggle to make the nation secure-the nation which in the last 40 years has honored him with high position and paid him and his wife-secretary $500,000 for their services. . . . He has sulked among his goats. It is not of record, however, that John Garner has refused the $2,500 in salary to which he is entitled, but has not earned. For 40 years the taxpayers have trained John Garner...
Last week came the time to nominate a Republican to run for the Senate seat now occupied by toothy, handshaking James M. Mead, Buffalo Democrat who helped Jim Farley parcel out post offices in the House until Senator-Doctor Royal S. Copeland's death in June 1938 brought him promotion. Tom Dewey's professional friends got together to plan the biennial Republican defeat. Kenneth Simpson was not consulted. Tom Dewey didn't want the job, said he couldn't afford the financial sacrifice (Senate salary: $10,000). Hopefully the G. 0. P. bosses scanned the list...
...believe Dr. Goebbels, post-war France was a politicians' playground, a hotbed of lewdness and corruption. If we are to believe "The Baker's Wife," it was a land of savory white bread and sparkling wine, the home of wholesome earthiness and tender charm. Whatever the historical truth, "The Baker's Wife" should manage to please everybody: Dr. Goebbels, because of its solid portion of "blood and soil"; and all the others, because of its warm humanity and charming malice...
Professor Sidney Post Simpson of the Law School was appointed aide to Robert P. Patterson, while Law School Professors advised the Department of Justice on special problems connected with the Alien Registration Law. Now working with the Evaluation Committee of the National Research Council is Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory...
Instrumental in furthering education in his own country, in Mexico, and in Argentina, Urena has hold the post of general superintendent of education in the Dominican Republic and that of director-general of public education in the state of Puebla in Mexico. He was also the Dominican delegate to the University conference at Montevideo...