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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General Farley's main reasons for getting back from politicking around the country was to address 1,550 members of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, together with their 1,400 ladies, their 1,300 juniors, who convened last week in Washington...
...some time previous to the letter from Mr. Harding, although we are allowed no Calif, papers, all the out of State papers carried stories about how Mr. Harding was going to or had come over to see us and ask for the cornea. In fact there was so much publicity before any of us heard directly about it, that many condemned men thought it was merely a publicity stunt and therefore distrustful of the whole thing. There were also newspaper stories to the effect the request was made to us through the prison chaplain, but the truth is the only...
...letter asked each of us to bequeath the cornea with a pious reference to Mr. Harding being a Minister. The letter indicated that it was Mr. Hardings belief that death was a matter of a few days in the future and that he wanted his cornea right away. Naturally you can appreciate this was impossible to work out in this...
...President Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville Varnish Co., a Democratic letter-writer almost as assiduous as National Chairman Jim Farley, wrote the latter saying: ". . . Get busy on some sort of a plan to get the Roosevelt philosophy to the traveling men and salesmen of the country." Most of Louisville Varnish's sales men, said Colonel Callahan, had become infected by the anti-Roosevelt feeling they encounter everywhere among their customers. "This " . . reactionary line of thinking is thrown into our salesmen five or six times every day and it is having its effect. . . . Salesmen, as you know, do a great...
...fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan to receive her prize: a four-to-six-week treatment with a plastic surgeon and Bonwit Teller's beauty salon to make the least of her nose, the most of her hair, chin...