Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Were I in America, the spirit indeed would move me to write to Mr. James H. Rand Jr., to express my appreciation of what he is doing for the entertainment of radio listeners. I sincerely hope, however, that he receives liberal quantities of mail from appreciative "March of TIME'' fans...
...going off half-cocked and had the Heimwehr men to help him break any strikes the Socialists may call. He dissolved the Socialist singing society, the Sängerbund. He barred the Socialist newspaper Arbeiter Zeitung from newsstands for a month so that it must reach its readers by mail, a day late. He sanctioned by decree the internment of "undesirables" at their own expense (TIME...
...whom he owed $720 had not sent him a bill, had attached all his clothes instead. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn sold "St. Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice...
...knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because men who sort letters and deliver mail are chosen by examination, when those who direct their activity are selected, simply and openly, by politicians? No really successful civil service, such as the British or the Swiss, has developed with this poison at its roots, and ours cannot escape the rule. Talk of driving the moneychangers out of the temple...
Publication of the code brought a new shower of protests. The mail order houses abruptly reversed their position when they discovered that NRA economists had changed "invoice price" to "wholesale price." That would mean that Sears, Roebuck or Montgomery, Ward would not get the full benefit of their huge-scale buying. When "invoice price" was reinstated and the rest of the section simplified, they fell back into rank-but grumbling that the whole thing was unworkable...