Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail arrived. There were some letters for the President. One said that Mr. Hoover would like to resign as Secretary of Commerce, when and if Mr. Coolidge desired. The other letter said that Mr. Hoover would like to visit the President. The President immediately telegraphed a cordial invitation to Mr. & Mrs. Hoover...
...MAIL STOLEN ON LEVIATHAN...
Vexed, the Captain rapped, "You may make it doubly strong! . . . One Scotland Yard detective, after inspecting the mail compartment and the method of protecting the mail on the Leviathan, assured me that he did not see how the robbery could have been committed aboard ship...
...Rothermere?" Thus the cries, last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity, admirable restraint, the Morning Post...
...brushed the forests, slowly, monotonously. Everything dripped and the rust-colored road from Lake Superior to small Brule, the inland riverbank settlement, developed treacherous potholes despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...