Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspaper reaction was a nearly unanimous cry of dismay. The Liberal Winnipeg Free Press called the tax "silly, illiberal and vindictive." The Tory Globe and Mail branded it "one of the worst tax measures ever devised by the government of a free country." The newspapers also expressed doubt that the tax would be of any help to Canadian magazines. They foresaw that the U.S. publications principally affected (Reader's Digest, TIME, Family Circle, Woman's Day, Everywoman's and Parents Magazine) would raise their advertising and subscription rates, and that advertisers who preferred these publications would continue...
...wrote on the flyleaf of the proof sheets he sent her: "An Inspiration which came in response to the prayers of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think you are a better Catholic than I, but my view of the Bible is the view of the Fathers of the Church; and yours is that of a Belfast Protestant to whom the Bible is a fetish . . . But you must...
Students leaving Cambridge next week should be sure to leave a forwarding address behind them, the Summer School warned yesterday. Such an address should be left with the Harvard Square branch of the Post Office. If it is not, mail addressed here will eventually be forwarded to the permanent address that the student has listed with the Summer School, but it will be considerably delayed in the process...
This notice holds not only for inhabitants of College dormitories, but for students living elsewhere as well, since in many cases their mail too will be forwarded first to the Summer School...
...pocket, but Truman was one of the few U.S. Presidents to save money in office, has since picked up some handsome fees, e.g., from LIFE and Doubleday for his bestselling memoirs, from King Features for his European series. His main office chores: answering the weekly mail, which ranges from 2,000 to 7,000 letters, autographing his Memoirs, and-increasingly with the convention drawing closer-greeting Democratic visitors who troop in to see him-some old friends, some on the make, some on the wane...