Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House to discuss Russian debt negotiations and presented the philatelic President with a volume containing a new issue of Soviet stamps, sent by Commissar Litvinoff. ¶By two strokes of his official pen the President: 1) vetoed a bill which would have guaranteed minimum incomes to substitute mail carriers in the Post Office; 2) abolished the office of Alien Property Custodian established during the War to take over some two billion dollars worth of firms and securities owned by Germans and Austrians, most of which have now either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation...
Last week, after nearly three months of zero-zero political weather, the fog lifted and U. S. airlines got back the mail. Satisfied that the major companies had reorganized "in good faith," Postmaster General Farley awarded temporary contracts to low bidders on 15 of the 21 routes recently advertised by his Post Office Department...
...ended the greatest political setback the Administration has had so far and the greatest economic setback U. S. aviation has had since its beginning. With both Mr. Farley and the airlines apparently willing to let bygones be bygones, action was swiftly taken to relieve the Army of its onerous mail-carrying duties...
First to renew operations was United Air Lines, which took over the mail this week on its old Northern Transcontinental and Pacific Coast routes. Ready to fly the Central Transcontinental mail was Transcontinental & Western Air, which had gotten back its contract by bidding at an almost suicidal rate. Likewise ready was Eastern Air Lines, which was awarded the Newark-Miami and Newark-New Orleans contracts...
Juniors and Sophomores will vote by mail today upon 33 names for election to the Student Council. Recipients of the ballots will choose only the nominees of their own class...