Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Presumably AH Landon, who was reported to have refused a Cabinet post unless the President rejected the Third Term...
...what Jim Farley knew, he had pledged not to tell. And beyond that one thing he knew nothing. Scratching their heads, perplexed, anxious, the hordes went to the Hopkins headquarters. There they got rough treatment. Not a single post-Convention promise was made to them, and only one pledge was exacted from them : unquestioning obedience to the New Dealers...
...such speculation was to be condemned, whether it was in the securities of utility companies, vending-machine companies ... or gambling in . . . German marks." Correspondents instantly remembered that Franklin Roosevelt in 1928 was briefly involved in an ill-starred vending-machine venture, had previously dabbled in German exchange during the post-war inflation...
...Edmund Ironside, 60, was eased upstairs with the rank of Field Marshal, to make way for Lieut. General Sir Alan Francis ("Wizard") Brooke, 57, as Commander in Chief of the Home Forces. General the Viscount Gort, Commander in Chief of the B. E. F., unassigned to a new high post since his return from France, was made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 56, was named. The latter was the hard-bitten infantryman who helped wrestle Narvik from Germany...
...Indianapolis Power & Light Co., which last April became the first post-Depression electric utility to float new-money common stock (TIME, April 15), offered $32,000,000 in 3¼% bonds, proceeds of which will be used to redeem 3¾% bonds...