Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round-the-world-flight. Several bills granting promotion, bonuses, etc., have been proposed in Congress but not seriously considered. The President wished to present and press a bill approved by the Army.* ¶ Mr. and Airs. Coolidge attended the dedication of the Washington Community Christmas tree, opened voluminous mail, received numerous presents, attended church, heard choral singing at the north portico of the White House by the choir of the First Congregational Church: Bells of Christmas, The First Noel, Sleep, Holy Babe, Angels We Have Heard on High, Silent Night, Holy Night, Shepherd's Christmas Song, God Rest...
...serve this purpose, a bill known as the Sterling Bill has been prepared. It calls for an increase of postal rates on nearly all classes of mail except first class. A large part of the raise is to be attached to the rates on second class mail-newspapers and magazines-since this class of mail, according to the Post Office Department, has been causing an annual deficit...
During the holidays, hearings were held on this bill by a joint sub-com- mittee of the Senate and House Post Office Committees. The publishers in force attacked it with a great fanfare of protest; they said it was ruinous, they said second class mail had been wrongly accused of causing a deficit. Postmaster General New declared that the bill was fair and absolutely necessary if postal pay was to be increased...
...possibility of the Sterling Bill's being passed is another matter. No politician wants to incur the terrible wrath of the press, a wrath already rising at the suggestion that second class mail rates be somewhat increased. The wrath of this or that great city daily may be endured; but to provoke the almost universal enmity of the press, both urban and rustic, would be all but suicidal. The press wieldeth a mighty club. Congress may not lightly tread heavily upon its toes...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -The Italian grape-grower of California who summons by mail a wife to grace his rural opulence. But he had white hair, while his hired man was young and handsome. Pauline Lord obliges with the greatest performance of the season...