Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge's closest friend, came to visit indefinitely, to cheer the President, to fish. ¶ Official Secretary Everett Sanders was ill, Confidential Secretary Edward T. Clark was away in Boston. The President found himself at the Executive offices near Paul Smith's Hotel one morning, opening the mail and attending to the affairs of the Republic with the aid of his stenographer only. ¶ Rev. Charles R. Erdman of the Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron...
Meantime the President arrived at the summer executive offices overlooking St. Regis Lake at 9 o'clock, and read the unusually bulky Washington mail. Reporters ascertained that...
...custom of a monthly magazine called The Mailbag (monthly; published in Cleveland; slogan, "All about direct-mail-advertising") to comment upon or reproduce advertisements which, in the Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years...
...network of air mail routes that is slowly spreading over the country, last week stretched out to join Boston with New York and thus, by relays, with Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Francisco and intermediate offices...
Whizzing New Englandwards from Hadley Field (New Brunswick, N. J.) the first New York-to-Boston plane stopped off with mail for Hartford, Conn. Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, chairman of the board of the company contracting for the new route, left his busy desk in the State House to follow the mail-carrier to Boston in another plane, where a trio of Navy pilots flew out to meet them...