Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report on the $2,000,000,000 home mortgage relief bill; sent it to the President. Only on homes valued at $20,000 or less will the Government help to refinance mortgages. ¶Adopted a resolution by Alabama's Black appropriating $25,000 to investigate air and ocean mail contracts. ¶ Received a report from its Military Affairs Committee on the purchase of 200,000 kits at $1.40 each for the Civilian Conservation Corps after supersalesman Richard B. Bevier had visited Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Said the report: "We find no evidence that would sustain a charge...
Returned to London, Grant Richards' life was filled with the small details of his work and with his friends. There are Richard Le Gallience and Frank Harvis and his marvelous talk, G. R. S. Rarmsworth starting the "Daily Mail", and always Grant Atlen, young Richards uncle by marriage. There were rather milarious parties given by the brothers zangwill from one of which a large crowd returned in a hansom cab. Will Rothensiein on the roof and Phill May doing a great deal about driving the horse. And there was a group of literary men who gathered at the Crown...
...came the first of the Martin bombers, first U. S.-designed airplane for Liberty engines. Since the War, Martin has produced hundreds of patrol boats and torpedo planes for the Navy, bombers for the Army, from his former Cleveland factory and his superb new plant near Baltimore. An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately until this year when Pan American Airways submitted specifications for a huge riving boat of long cruising range for oceanic service. Every manufacturer rejected the proposal as impossible, except Martin. Subsequently Sikorsky decided it could also do the job. Currently...
...hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief of them all," and Ralph Teter, "brains of the $350,000 Dearborn Station mail robbery...
While living in the United States, I was a subscriber to various magazines, but through financial reverses, I had to give them up. Is there not any of your Harvard University students who would mail to me once in a while some of their old magazines or books? Yours truly, H. A. Wilton van Reede, 159 Gooreinde, Gheel, Belgium...