Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being joined at Lobos Cay by Son James Roosevelt who flew from Puerto Rico. His third report (three sentences) admitted arrival off Great Inagua Island, 500 miles at sea. His fourth report, equally brief, described swimming from the shore, the safe arrival of two seaplanesful of official mail when the Nourmahal touched at Crooked Island...
...citizens to write their Congressmen about the "outrage." The time was politically ripe because taxpayers were just making out their Federal returns, filling in the facts about their income on the pink slips that went with each return. Suddenly amazed Senators and Representatives discovered that their anti-pink slip mail was running even stronger than the Townsend Plan tide. The Bacon bill, a Republican ugly duckling, was welcomed into the Administration family. When he thought it looked like a winner. Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee tried to take the one-line repealer over as his own political...
...Anything to help build up a militant party!" cried gigantic, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish of New York whose radio fan mail has infected him seriously with the Presidential...
...second good fortune followed. General Johnson denounced him (TIME, March 18). Senator Long did not mind in the least. He demanded radio time to reply, and seized the opportunity, not to denounce General Johnson but to propagandize for his Share-the-Wealth Clubs. That brought him his maximum mail, over 30,000 letters...
More than two hundred students annually have been given work under the plan. The jobs assigned are entirely within the University, in the libraries, museums, administrative offices, laboratories, and mail and monitor services. The students are paid at the rate of fifty and sixty cents an hour; the money is credited to the term bill. The average earnings for each man were $202 last year, and will be about the same this year. The maximum is $300 for any student...