Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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That other necessary component of the Fascist State, the single party, promptly made its appearance. Deputy Marcel Déat ("I do not want to die for Danzig") announced that he had declined a Cabinet post, instead would form a French Uniform Party to support Leader-Designate Laval "which would place an authoritarian people's movement at the side of the authoritarian regime." Party planks: 1) France must do nothing to compete with German industry; 2) compulsory labor service for youth; 3) "France for the French...
...London the press stoutly helped boost the prestige of the new post. The businesslike Times pointed out that the governorship will become increasingly important (with the eventual disposition of the French West Indies yet to be decided and U. S. good will to be courted). The Daily Mail concentrated on the recreational facilities of the archipelago, described the Bahamas as "isles of pirate gold" and the playground of rich Americans...
...There is no provision in British law for resigning from the House of Commons, but a member loses his seat by elevation to the peerage or taking a post such as one of the virtually imaginary stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds, nominal jobs with token pay and no duties...
...which horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes they make ten or 15 false starts before they all go over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride...
...Amarillo, Tex., similar sounds were heard. As the murals for the Amarillo post office took shape, Texas cowhands said some mighty sharp things about WPAinter Julius Woeltz. Artist Woeltz had painted cowboys loading unbranded cattle into a boxcar, had left out a shipping pen (cattle are never loaded from the open range), showed a lasso dangling from the wrong side of a saddle. His most glaring mistake was substitution of English-style saddles for Western. Said a bystander: "You couldn't never git a cowboy on one of them postage-stamp things...