Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington lawmakers and officials report an extraordinary tide of budget-criticizing mail. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey still gets sackfuls of letters applauding his furor-stirring prediction that continued high taxes would eventually bring on a hair-curling depression (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges has been getting 50 cut-that-budget letters a day-"a surprising volume," he says. Observed a Bridges aide after studying the boss's mail: "The public complacency of recent years about Government spending has definitely worn...
...plan to mail it home to parents who might have missed...
...week's end, IRS music lovers called a halt. The cry was loud and clear: Nix on the tunes, sad or funny/ Just mail the returns-and don't forget the money...
...small printed circular was certainly sedate enough to come from such a blue-blooded prep school as Massachusetts' Groton. But to the hundreds of alumni who received it in the mail last week it was, to say the least, something of a shock. "As desegregation is clearly the prime social duty facing the country today," said the circular, "Groton wishes to do all a school can towards complete eradication of the evil of segregation ... In consistence with Christian doctrine and the teachings of the Bible and in consistence with the human beliefs of two of Groton's most...
Worthy claimed that officials at the United States Embassy in Budapest had tampered with his mail. The Department later explained that a letter addressed to Worthy had been opened "in error" by the U.S. Minister. Worthy pointed out, however, that the Minister doesn't usually spend his time working in the mail room...