Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last January the U. S. Post Office began issuing a series of "Famous Americans" on postage stamps. It ran through authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, inventors-five of each. Last week it was busy with artists. Already on sale were Portraitist Gilbert Stuart (1?), James A. McNeill Whistler (2?). Out last week went Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens (3?) and Daniel Chester French Frederic Remington, famed Indian and cowboy painter (10?), goes on sale next week. The first four artists' stamps were not likely to make stamp users very art-conscious. They were, respectively, a hideous green, a hackneyed...
When Whistler's Mother appeared on a U. S. stamp for Mother's Day 1934, artists shuddered to see an un-Whistlerian bunch of flowers interpolated in the composition. The Post Office avoided artistic blunders when, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pan-American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style...
...shares a day, although only 90,000 shares (estimated) are held by the public. After the dividend, the stock jumped to $14.75, a new 1940 high. Rumors started by Thompson's action included one that its 1940 earnings would reach $10 to $16 a share; this helped the post-dividend rally. Unaccustomed to quick profits these days, speculators figured that any insider who bought before the payment, sold three or four days later, could have cleared...
...short of ideal. Then there is Hiram Sherman, portly and bouncing, who raises his pleasant voice all through the evening as the town's new minister. It would almost seem that Ervine wrote the part for him also. The rest of the cast, Helen Trenholme as Agnes Boyd, William Post, Jr. as John Haslett, Eda Heinemann and Grace Mills, all fit their parts...
...first scene. But the charm of the play is the deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...