Word: cachet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
...while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost nil. This has been achieved by what one French colonel called un petit cachet medieval: sentries are posted on 40-ft. towers recently built on each road at one-mile intervals. A dawn patrol from each tower digs up the land mines which the Communists plant during the night...
...schools where he had little chance of succeeding, calculating that he could thus make his ultimate destination the reformatory. Mirabeau became a first-rate orator. He also fought, went into debt, seduced his tutor's daughter at 13. When he was 16 his father secured a lettre de cachet for him, applied it two years later...
...Lettres de cachet were one of the causes of the Revolution. Under them a husband could lock up his wife, a father his son, or the state could exile or imprison a dissenter, without judicial processes. Theoretically, the king signed each order. Actually, they were filled out, with the space for the name left blank, and clerks could issue them when needed, confining an enemy indefinitely. An estimated 150,000 lettres de cachet were issued during the reign of Louis...
...since the gift did not include the Britannica's (i.e., Sears's) working capital, rich U.C.'s trustees thought they might be getting a pig in a poke. They did not want to risk endowment funds on a property that had long had more cachet than cash (though its domestic sales last year were over $4,000,000, Sears prudently carried the Britannica on its books at $1). Result: Bill Benton himself agreed to put up whatever might be needed to keep it going, took an unnamed percentage of the stock from U.C. to back his investment...