Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Means crockery was only minor graft in the Department of Justice where he was lodged under Daugherty. He was convicted of taking a bribe from two culprits in a mail fraud case which the Department discovered. He was convicted of conspiring to obtain and sell Federal permits for whiskey withdrawals. He was charged with forgery of a Senator's name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year...
...Gulping mail clerks at Southampton, England, last month reported a "$500,000 mail robbery" from sacks ferried abroad in the Leviathan. The ship was detained at Southampton during a long investigation. Not until last week did she get back to Manhattan. By that time the Leviathan robbery had shriveled to some $10,000 worth of valuables actually removed from some 1,300 registered letters. The thieving had apparently been done after the Leviathan docked at Southampton. Suspicion attached to a British member of the crew...
Last week the newspaper of world's largest circulation, the London Daily Mail, helpfully advised as follows...
...each of the three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...
...editor of the Overland Mail is Alfred Pittman, no near relation of Senator Key Pittman of Nevada...