Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...idea out of the bag the rest of the U. S. had something different to think about: the appointment of two members of the opposition party to his Cabinet. To one of these political outsiders he gave the job of Secretary of War, to the other the equally key post of Secretary of the Navy-boss of the ships which are the apple of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Nervous Western farmers received Franklin Roosevelt's assurance that there would be no dumping in the U. S.; nervous Canadians, his word that they would not be excluded. Others asked, What about Argentina's plan: To organize South American economy for South Americans, in preparation for the post-war boom which many Buenos Aires businessmen expected? Would Latin American surpluses inevitably lead to the establishment of national quotas, which would lead to Latin American AAAs? Would the U. S., by withholding America's pooled commodities from belligerents, turn the plan into a Pan-American embargo...
Last week, all Mr. Hull had heard from him-through Berlin-was that he was still there. For inside news from France, good, grey, softly swearing Mr. Hull was dependent on elegant, inexperienced Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Ambassador to Poland, who had followed his Polish post, like an outfielder chasing a liner over his head, from Warsaw to Paris, to Bordeaux...
...Back to Germany after reporting in Washington flew adroit Alexander Kirk, veteran charge d'affaires, to his uncomfortable post in Berlin...
...Savitsch went from Antwerp to the Belgian Congo to collect data on sleeping sickness. Except for their strong smell, said he, Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...