Word: posts
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...mayor including the mayor of Boston--who believes in the asininity that local officials cannot end racketeering in his town in either a liar or a moron," claimed Ray Sprigle, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, at last night's Law Forum...
...Sprigle, 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is best known for his national series, "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days...
Just after election, Amory charged the Democratic Club with "un-American and prejudicial electioneering and appealing to racism" in the door-to-door support of Democratic candidate Walter J. Sullivan against incumbent Republican A. John Serino. The post at stake was that state representative from the Cambridge Second Middlesex District...
MacLeish is concerned over his place in the Harvard picture, for this professorship is his first academic post. "Whereas my colleagues have research and teaching experience to fall back on, I am like an army without depth. You only know what you have used, and the result is constant pressure." But MacLeish recognizes the "pleasantness of life" at a university after so many years in Washington...
...idea of polities deciding a college appointment seemed so wrong to most people that a drive began to free the University of this burden; after 1866 the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and other state officials stopped serving as ex-office Overseers. From that post-Civil War period on, the Overseers have been elected by the alumni--five each year for six year terms...