Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week centred about the mail truck hold-up at Elizabeth, N. J., in which a Government employe was killed and $300,000 worth of registered mail was stolen. Postmaster General Harry S. New arose with a battle cry: "If it takes the Army and Navy to do it, the United States mails must be protected and the lives of postal employes safeguarded...
...next day Mr. New held conference with Major General Lejeune, Commandant of the Marine Corps, with the result that the marines were forthwith assigned to guard railway terminals, postal cars, and mail trucks which carry registered mail...
...Hugh S. ("Mail Order") Magill, independent Republican Dry, who is backed by Julius Rosenwald in "a revolt of good citizenship" against the two other "slush" candidates. In August, Mr. Rosenwald, head of the mail order house of Sears, Roebuck & Co., visited President Coolidge, is believed to have told him about the grimy political situation in Illinois. Mr. Rosenwald says that he, himself, is "a dub in politics" but that he is firmly convinced of the worthiness of Mr. Magill. Mr. Magill's name will be put on the November ballot as the result of a petition filed last week...
...evidence: 1) Indian legends of huge serpents appearing on Lake Ontario. (Norse war galleys had low hulls, dragon prows, the sides hung with shields, like scales. 2) An Indian legend of a chief battling a serpent, slaying him and wearing his skin. (The Norsemen wore coats of chain mail.) 3) Disappearance of the Mound-builder civilization from the Great Lakes and Mississippi Basin in the 12th Century. (The indomitable Norse first began coming to America in the 11th Century.) 4) Presence in the Mound-builder country of earthworks identical with mounds of known Norse origin in Scandinavia and Scotland...
Within a few days the postal authorities hope to install the necessary equipment and have the branch office in operation. The present delay in delivering the mail is owing to the fact that the Business School is not on Cambridge land but is situated in a suburb of Boston...