Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor-bound not to tell his name. With some misgivings (it feared that Santa Claus' signature was too easy to forge), the bank had opened the account for a Californian who drew from it regularly to send gifts to Sophie Shankses around the country. Said Bank Manager Frank K. Galloway: "Santa Claus is a reputable citizen who wants to do nice things and has just chosen this...
...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...year-old Frank Learoyd Boyden of Foxboro, Mass, did do. That fall of 1902, just out of Amherst himself, he took over the 103-year-old school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday...
Penn will rely on either Ed Lukivich (4-1) or Ralph Jiorle (1-1) to oppose Ira Godin. The Quaker lineup is headed by first baseman and Captain Frank Cooney, who bats third with a .339 average; center fielder Jim Smith, another better than average hitter; and third baseman Tom Mangan, currently hitting at a .345 pace...
...dissenting teachers on the Queens faculty were soon the object of much attention. On May 3, James A. Roe and Frank Kenna, respectively the local Democratic and Republican leaders, asked an investigation of the faculty...