Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...
...that prices leaped ahead of wages in Britain was that wage earners, flush with fat wartime pay envelopes, spent so lavishly amid a shortage of goods that they forced up prices to their own disadvantage. If they had "deferred spending," says the Professor, the "spiral of inflation" and of post-war deflation would not have been so violent...
...long, two-fisted, crusading record has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Back in 1883, four years after the late, great Joseph Pulitzer created it, Managing Editor John A. Cockerill shot and killed a man who called the Post-Dispatch a gang of blackmailers. Under famed Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard, who retired two years ago, the Post-Dispatch tore into municipal corruption whenever it could be found, in 1937 won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing election frauds. Last week the Post-Dispatch was again in the fray...
Bovard's successor is a 6 ft. 4 in., 235-Ib. Missourian named Benjamin Harrison Reese. Editor Reese has just one aim in life: to see that the Post-Dispatch lives up to its reputation his predecessors gave it. In that ambition he is backed by two fighting Irish henchmen: ruddy Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan, sandy-haired Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick...
...Cronin's cup runs over with optimism as he discusses the chances of the 1940 Red Sox to upset the all-powerful New York Yankees in this week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post. In an article prepared with George Kirksey, Cronin says that the Yankees have a "date with fate" and that their great machine is starting to come apart at the seams...