Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fill Mandel's place at the Ministry of Colonies, the Premier shifted Louis Rollin from the Ministry of Commerce. As new Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933 occupied by Alexis Leger ("greatest living diplomat"), Premier Reynaud appointed Frangois Charles-Roux, envoy to the Vatican, an expert on Papal foreign policy...
...shock. Believing that his entry into the Cabinet would provoke storms of protest from his countless enemies, he was touched when Britons responded to his appointment with loud applause. Even Baron Camrose, major Fleet Street competitor of The Beaver, came out handsomely in his London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post: "As one of the new ministers comes from Fleet Street, which has the best means of estimating his powers, we may offer warm welcome to the decision which has made Lord Beaverbrook Minister for Aircraft Production...
Mayer, who has spent close to $1,000,000 on thoroughbreds in the last two years. At Belmont last week six or seven horses, in stead of the usual two or three of former years, went to the post in the daily steeplechase events...
Died. General Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat, 77, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the East (1917), chief of the post-war army of occupation in the Rhineland, onetime (1926) French Minister of War; of pneumonia; in Nantes...
These three long domed Dwight Macdonald, hoarse voiced Frederick W. Dupee, pale-browed George Lovett Kingsland Morris-put out their first post-graduation magazine in 1930: a slim, self-conscious sheaf called Miscellany that lasted one year. Their later vehicle, the Partisan Review, was first published in 1934 as an organ of the John Reed (Leftist writers') Club of New York, among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv...