Word: mailbag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt was clearly ahead on points. The subject that provoked the controversy, the cardinal's loss of temper, and her own adroit mode of expression were all in her favor until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
...their rotund, accommodating little friends made their debut in March. Sailors on H.M.S. Ganges formed a Shmoo club, English farmers reported that hens were laying Shmoo-shaped eggs, and subscribers sent Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos were definitely un-British. Wrote he: "The Shmoos are encouraging the very characteristics that are ruining this country ... lazy-mindedness and the deliberate pursuit of everything that is slovenly and American." A Mrs. Collins found the drawing "ridiculous" and the language "unintelligible...
...value of the prizes* mounted to over $20,000. The listening audience swelled to more than 20 million. The mailbag bulged to 10,000 letters a day. The March of Dimes (a donation with a letter is suggested as the price of admission to the contest) collected something like $125,000. Listeners brightly guessed Elsa Maxwell, Maude Adams, Sister Kenny, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Pickford, Mary Garden. But still nobody guessed right. Last week Miss Hush tried to spill the beans...
Under the empty mailbag...
...mailbag was eagerly emptied by partners and officers of the principal underwriting houses in New York and Chicago last week. Each firm was expecting a letter from Frank J. Gavin, president of the Great Northern Railway. Most of Railroader Gavin's letters are notably brief, but this one was to be a little longer than usual. It was an invitation for competitive bids on $100 million 3½% refunding bonds of the Great Northern-the largest issue of topflight railroad bonds to come to market since 1900. The sale must be completed...