Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into the Congressional Record a statement showing that Robert & Co. had lately snared eight out of 66 Navy building contracts, with a total...
...Harry Tammen woke up to the fact that his old friend and patron had fallen on hard times, gave Lyulph Ogilvy a job. The Post (now fairly sedate) was a bold, rowdy, unscrupulous journal when Ogilvy joined its staff in 1909. When Tammen asked what his first name was, Ogilvy answered, "Lyulph." Said Tammen: "That's a hell of a name. We'll call you Lord Ogilvy...
...authority on sheep and livestock, Lord Ogilvy writes his stories in batches, five or six at a time, always keeps a week or so ahead, shows up at the Post when he feels like working. Son Jack, a Harvard graduate, Ph.D., is an instructor in English at the University of Colorado. His niece, incidentally, is the Hon. Clementine Hozier Churchill, wife of Britain's Prime Minister...
Last week, as bombs rained on Britain, its people had no time to ponder such post-mortems on the great evacuation, which started dramatically last Aug. 31, a few weeks later undramatically collapsed. But historians are not likely to overlook a clinical report on the evacuation which last week arrived...
Disappointed in his hopes of a financial post with Lord Cromer, the young proconsul returned to a lawyer's desk in London, lived through the war's disenchantments, dabbled bashfully in politics because he thought it was his duty. When his great friend and hero George V sent him to Ottawa in 1935, when he had already made an imperial name for himself as a novelist and biographer and had adjudged himself too old for a career in Parliament, John Buchan sprang into action like one of Milner's young war horses, did a difficult...