Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army.................$16,793,000 Navy..................22,391,000 Air Mail.............2,750,000 Nat'l Advisory Committee.........513,000 ___________ Total...
...civilian use of aircraft be promoted? "To the end that this important field should receive the attention that it deserves, we recommend that provision be made for a Bureau of Air Navigation under an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce. We recommend the progressive extension of the Air Mail Service, preferably by contract, and also that steps be taken to meet the manifest needs for airways and air-navigation facilities, including an adequate weather service maintained by public authority and planned with special reference to the needs of air com-merce...
...Whereas Gerald Chapman was convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of robbery of mail matter and placing the life of a mail carrier in jeopardy, and was sentenced Aug. 23, 1922, to imprisonment for twenty-five years in the United States penitentiary at Atlanta...
Thus did the President commute the punishment of Gerald Chapman, mail robber, so that Gerald Chapman, murderer, might be hanged by the State of Connecticut. Mr. Chapman refused the commutation and denounced it as an abuse of clemency power. His lawyers will seek in the courts to establish his right to finish his 25-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary from which he escaped. If they succeed, his hanging will have to wait...
...mail boxes of most Seniors yesterday morning was a communication of a type long familiar to Harvard undergraduates,--a circular from one of the Massachusetts Avenue tutoring schools. This particular circular, however, differed from most of the others of its kind. It offered to prepare all comers, not as customarily for a quiz, an hour examination, or even a final, but for the divisional examinations in January and May. "It is advisable," ran the legend, "that candidates procure appointments at once for the supervision and planning of their work. Reviews will be given, as usual, a few weeks prior...