Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Beginning next week the 45,000 U. S. post offices will distribute to noncitizens some 5,000,000 sample questionnaires in six key languages-Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish. Two weeks later the four-month registration period will commence at 7,500 first and second class post offices. There aliens will be fingerprinted, answer the Department's 15 probing queries. Most pertinent item reads: "Within the past 5 years I (have, have not) been affiliated with or active in (a member of, official of, a worker for) organizations devoted in whole or in part to influencing or furthering...
...when Warren moves his papers to the red brick Old Pension Office Building on Judiciary Square, he will take a post which demands all the painstaking concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire...
...delegate, next to Cordell Hull, was Brazil's black-browed Mauricio de Nabuco, who, though he quietly influences foreign policy from his desk as Secretary General to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had never attended an international conference before. Son of an Ambassador who died at his Washington post in 1917, Mauricio de Nabuco believes that Brazil should follow U. S. policy. This does not keep him from being a shrewd trader. Last week he, too, was on his way to Washington, to collect a few favors for Brazil in return for his pro-U. S. stand at Havana...
Same day they took Kassala, the Italians moved in force on Gallabat, a Sudanese post important for its nearness to Gondar and the roads around Lake Tana to Addis Ababa. Last fortnight they also took Kurmuk, another border post, south of where the Blue Nile flows out of Ethiopia...
...Three Cities will trouble neither the ghost of Charles Dickens nor the minds of the hammock readers, its probable audience. It is quite harmless. But like most of the other "historical novels" whose chief distinction lies in the fact that they are too heavy to be shipped by parcel post, its interest lies mainly in suggesting the question: why anyone should have taken the trouble to write...