mastership

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One Kansas senator, for example, got five postmasterships to distribute in return for voting the way Wilson wanted on a tariff law.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020

It used to be the folks down here talked about rural routes and postmasterships, social security and farm roads and veterans' benefits.

From Time Magazine Archive

O'Brien will have a critical part in that effort, too, both as campaign strategist and patronage dispenser, with 35,000 appointive postmasterships and 33,000 rural letter-carrier jobs at his disposal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Postmaster General New read letters and affidavits showing how postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20.

From Time Magazine Archive

The eagerness with which fourth-class postmasterships are sought seems strange when one remembers that the salaries are small and the duties often exacting.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various