Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the White House scarcely a sound was heard-for it was Thanksgiving Day. In the morning, the President read his newspapers, scanned his mail. Before noon the calm grew more profound, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge together with Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent had departed for worship at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church,* where Bishop William F. McDowell preached. Upon their return, the five lunched lightly. Then the President napped while the rest of the party went to see Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife...
...International Mercantile Marine Co. (J. P. Morgan & Co.) sold the White Star Line, the only profitable part of its fleets, last week to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. for $34,000,000. The late J. P. Morgan could find no Judge Gary for the shipping trust he planned in 1902, although he did get the ablest shipping executive on the Atlantic seaboard, Philip Albright Small Franklin, for president. Mr. Franklin has had many things to fight-foreign competition, inertia of U. S. shippers, a heavy $36,000,000 bonded indebtedness, most of all legislative handicaps. No other government regulates...
...bigheaded, slim girl of 20, Queen Victoria of England, signed a charter authorizing the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. to operate its 14 paddle-wheel steamers between England and the West Indies. That shipping business prospered although sometimes the new-fangled engines broke down and the captains had to hoist sails. When modern screw propellers were invented, the Royal Mail was the first to adopt the device. When there happened to be bargains in ships. Royal Mail bought them. Now its fleets, including the 500,000 tons of the White Star Line, count 2,500,000 gross tonnage, the largest...
...balloting for the Junior elections was carried on by mail, and the tally of votes was kept by the retiring officers. PRESIDENT J. N. Barbee 837 C. A. Pratt 883 John Watts 1081 E. B. Jackson 1337 M. M. Tall 1700 VICE-PRESIDENT J. P. Chase 584 Moses Williams Jr. 854 H. W. Bragdon 882 SECRETARY-TREASURER W. A. Magie 641 D. P. Donaldson 806 P. H. Nitze...
...President's indorsement was unique in that this newspaper is published with expectations, however slight, of profit. It charges $15 per year for a subscription by mail, and accepts advertisements...