Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cautious x into the ballot box. His electoral duty done, that President would then whisk back to Washington. In 1928 Herbert Hoover went to Palo Alto to drop his vote and hear election returns which put him into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin Roosevelt might have sent to Hyde Park for an absentee ballot this year, alleging that business kept him in Washington...
Chicago, Nov. 5--The cross-examination of Samuel Insull, Sr., in his $143,000,000 mail fraud trial ended today on a note of high-pressure salesmanship and the defense moved on to other witnesses intended to establish that collapse of the Insull empire was the result of conditions which affected business universally during the depression...
Meantime the "show must go on," "the mail must get through", etc. so practice continued as usual with a 30 minute scrimmage with the Jayvees and a demonstration of Army plays. Just to make the session unusually tough for the end squad, the second string, consisting of Jim Gaffney, Garrow Geer, Norm Cabners, and Dick Sullivan, took turns playing against each other, one pair serving on both the Jayvee and Varsity teams...
...tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...
Another thing that has become almost as puzzling as its general evasiveness is the high-handedness of the Administration in certain instances. The matter of the air-mail contracts was one instance of this. A case of the same thing, with a far more sinister aspect because it involved a good deal of falsehood in it, was the threat to the Hawaiian Islands delivered by Mr. Wesley Sturges, a Yale professor of law and erstwhile brain-truster with the A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations...