Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to the President's health and his future plans. The President replied: "I will say this: I myself said I would seek the advice of my trusted friends and associates and I have been busy doing it. But as that goes on there is a flood of mail and the mail generally is of one tenor only.* I am-after all, a person, no matter how many political enemies he has, does also have lots of friends and it is-they believe in him and they are very anxious to express their views...
...only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft-ridden New Orleans for ten years, until ousted by a reform candidate in 1946; George Reyer, Maestri's police superintendent; and Abe L. Shushan, former president of the levee board, who also went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud. Earl began to reminisce...
...corridor of the State Capitol by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, on account of a family grudge. Needing a Long, however unpalatable, Huey's machine put Earl on the ticket for lieutenant governor. In 1939 Earl won promotion when Governor Leche resigned shortly before the discovery of a state mail-fraud scandal. There followed a raucous conflict be tween the Long forces and a group of reformers, out of which Earl Long emerged once more, in 1948, for the second time governor of Louisiana...
...Office in effect challenged Dulles' interpretation of the end of the Indo-China war, denying that Britain had ever told Dulles it would intervene. British newspapers reflected concern that a revival of "tougher" U.S. diplomacy might now be in store. "A dance of death," cried the London Daily Mail. "Heaven protect us from this edgy gambler," said the Daily Mirror, "and his careless way of making his risky throws known to all the world...
...Bike-Racer. A descendant of the original French aeronauts who bounced from Paris to London in a converted 75-m.p.h. Farman "Goliath" bomber after World War I, Air France was formed in 1933 from five struggling companies. Frenchmen had already pioneered commercial routes through Europe and Africa, flown mail over South American jungles in convoys of three chattering airplanes in order, as one pilot put it, to be sure that "at least one would arrive." The Depression and cutthroat competition forced the small French lines to band together as Air France, 25% government-owned. By 1939 Air France was flying...