Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Minister of Supply, an all-important post: up-&-coming Herbert Morrison...
...John Simon was removed from active participation in this Government and given Britain's highest judicial post, the Lord Chancellorship, and made a peer...
...Prime Minister Churchill announced his War Cabinet of five: Conservatives Churchill, Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Laborites Attlee and Greenwood. For himself Mr. Churchill took the title of Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister. Lord Halifax kept his job as Foreign Secretary, Chamberlain was given the sinecure post of Lord President of the Council. Major Attlee became Lord Privy Seal, Arthur Greenwood Minister "Without Portfolio. Thus, the two new Cabinet members and discredited Mr. Chamberlain, though responsible for conduct of the war, were relieved of major administrative duties...
More than a year ago the New York Post, as a promotion stunt, sold albums of symphonic records, at $1.93 per set of three or four, to coupon-clipping readers...
...orchestra under Howard Barlow. Distribution to date: 250,000 discs. This series was launched by an organization called Music You Enjoy, Inc., formed by John H. Alderton Jr. Promoter Alderton has refrained from trying to sell his series to other newspapers. Publishers Service Co., Inc., which launched the original Post scheme, is suing him for $250,000 for cribbing its idea. "Just as if Henry Ford tried to sue Walter Chrysler for putting a rival car on the market," said Mr. Alderton with an air last week...