Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Daily Mall published an anonymous confession by a "kind-eyed, elderly country doctor" stating that, for mercy's sake, he had done away with two defective newborns and three agonized adults (TIME, Nov. 18). Last week the storm of controversy and comment blown up by the Mail's story roared on in the world Press. In England famed William Ralph Inge, morose one-time dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, signed his name to an opinion that euthanasia (painless death) administered to incurables is "not contrary to Christian principles." This was also signed by three other...
...General James Aloysius Farley primed to send her on her way and excitable Philippine President Manuel Quezon ready to receive her, the lithe new flying boat China Clipper last week floated in San Francisco Bay. On her first flight to Manila she was to carry a full load of mail, a crew of five, no passengers. Having postponed the trip once for stamp-collectors, Pan American Airways officials vowed that this time the great ship would leave on schedule-at 3:30 p. m. Pacific Time...
...late Theodore F. Merseles once declared that he was more interested in "making young men" than in making money. One young man he made was Lewis H. Brown, an Iowa-born farm boy whom he discovered in Montgomery Ward. When Mr. Merseles moved from the mail-order business to asbestos as head of Johns-Manville Corp., he took along Lewis Brown as his assistant. And after Mr. Merseles' death in 1929, Lewis Brown succeeded him as J-M's president...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Substitute Letter Carrier Suss S. Scalo was held in U. S. District Court on the charge that when he found he did not have time to deliver mail he burnt it to save red tape...
Instead of shooting off its matches separately, as it did last year, the pistol unit will run through groups of two or three meets the same evening. Except for two or three nearby challengers, results of this year's shooting will be made known through the mail...