Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miguel Primo de Rivera, Jr., son of Spain's Dictator, did not arrive in Manhattan last week, via the Spanish Royal Mail Line, but on the French Liner Paris, with intent to organize in North & South America a chain of Spanish Tourist agencies...
From time to time, he has owned many another. Among the journalistic corpses which litter his past are the New York Mail, swallowed by Frank R. Munsey; the Detroit Journal, swallowed by Hearst; the Memphis News-Scimitar; a paper in Lancaster, Pa. These he bought and then sold. But he rejects vigorously the idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice...
...special mass and a Feast of the Dedication the nuns entered into their new home. Plain chant and the mellow chiming of bells echoed from the vaults. The ceremonies over, the portals of the cloister were sealed. Henceforth the nuns' only communication with friends or relatives is by mail or through the solidly grated windows of the cloister parlor...
Important, therefore, were July statements of the two chief U. S. mail order houses, vendors of many a luxury and nearly all necessities, barometers of prosperity. Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced record July sales of $26,276,337 as against $20,960,713 in July, 1927. Montgomery Ward & Co. reported $13,976,559 as against...
...clubmen opened their mail, last week, with a start of surprise. They were used to advertisements of automobiles, investments, shaving soaps. But they were not used to elaborate, detailed advertisements of champagne. As everyone knows, bootleg champagne in the U. S, market is priced at $10-$15 a quart. These beguiling advertisements suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality...