Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charged that Ed Jackson, Dragon Stephenson and two minor politicians put their heads together in 1923, found that they needed 10.000 votes to swing the coming gubernatorial primary, decided that control of Marion county's prosecuting office would give them the votes, offered Governor McCray (then in mail trouble) $10,000 to let them name the prosecutor. Also they promised Governor McCray that no jury in Indiana would convict him of any crime. Governor McCray refused...
...Montgomery Ward will by no means discontinue its mail order business. President Everett continued: "These stores will supplement our mail order business. We find that when more people become acquainted with our company through our local stores, mail order volume actually increases in these areas...
...Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
...foreign loans offered to the U. S. public by U. S. banks, and knowing that such scrutiny would scarcely ensure success to a loan for a country which is not recognized by the U. S., the Soviet carried out its transaction privately and directly with U. S. citizens, by mail. To assure U. S. buyers, however, it was necessary to get some U. S. banks to act as agents, to pay out dollars for interest and amortization. The Soviet engaged, among other banks, the Chase National Bank of New York, the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, the Bank of Italy...
...actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces...