Word: posts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...great dignity and good humor, remarkable courage and a certain reserve," said Commentator Elmer Davis to the Washington Post) speaking of his late great & good friend, General Gray, a Persian cat that died last week, aged...
Regardless of the U.S. political maneuvering which brought him his new post, Bill O'Dwyer seemed a happy choice for a sunny job. Mexicans were complimented by his political prominence in the U.S., pleased that he is a Catholic, and tickled with his pretty wife and his appreciation of bullfighting. In the bullfighters' Café Tupinamba, a torero seriously explained, "A good fan of the bulls cannot be an imperialist."'And the ballad singers in buses and bars spread the news in a hastily composed corrido...
...Gentle, capable Careerman Thurston, not pleased at having been shuffled out of the Mexican post to make room for O'Dwyer, has retired, at 54, to Cuernavaca, there to live with his ailing mother...
...more after nine months. But the question of whether the 2,800 employees of the papers should collect $1,700,000 in back pay, as they demanded, was still up in the air, would have to be settled by arbitration. The Pittsburgh Press, which along with the Post-Gazette and Sun-Telegraph had lost close to $4,000,000 in ad revenue, put into words what everyone felt. Said the Press: "Nobody wins a strike. It's like a bloody war. Everybody loses...
...ensuing years more and more pamphlets and reprints of pamphlets littered the floor of the Yale Station post office...