postmasterships

The Post Office was an acknowledged political machine, an agency for doling out patronage in the form of postmasterships.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villages -- all, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Lieutenant-general of the forces; it would be ill-natured to say that visions of lost railroad commissionerships, lost consulships, lost postmasterships, -- yes, of lost senatorships, were in these loyal heads at this crucial time.

Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

As to the smaller offices -- the thousands of village postmasterships and so forth -- one man was likely to do the work as well as another; the dispossessed official could, in the then condition of the country, easily find another equally lucrative employment; "turn and turn about" seemed to be the rule of fair play.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

The patronage of the President was enormous, including the most trifling offices under Government, such as village postmasterships.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

If I had my way, I would put a clause in the Constitution giving all third-class postmasterships to third-class editors, anyway.

Homeburg Memories George Fitch 1896

States; when they used to rush down from Washington arter postmasterships and other sich like offices, which wer to be hed, they kinder thought, fur the asking!

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

Abundant reasons exist for including these postmasterships, based upon economy, improved service, and the peace and quiet of neighborhoods.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland 1872

Executive order dated the 6th day of May, 1896, [39] and if fourth-class postmasterships are not included in the statement it may be said that practically all positions contemplated by the civil-service law are now classified.

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland 1872

"I shouldn't like to go quite so far as that, sir," answered Mr. Craggie, with that diplomatic suavity which leads to postmasterships and seats in the General Court, and has even been known to oil a dull fellow's way into Congress.

The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871