Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President-elect is besieged by an army of applicants. His mail is swollen with local recommendations for "deserving" partisans. Each & every likely candidate must first be investigated because a President is held personally responsible for the character and calibre of any man he puts in office. Thus a President-elect gets his first idea of the awful magnitude of the four-year job ahead...
...them. "Franklin" took "Louis" to the Navy Department with him in 1913 as private secretary, had him at his side during the 1920 campaign. Col. Howe is credited with digging up the "Happy Warrior" phrase with which Mr. Roosevelt twice nominated Al Smith. He handles the Governor's private mail, private business, private house in Manhattan. During the pre-convention campaign he was the "inside man," while Jim Farley was working in the spotlight. It was straight to Col. Howe the McAdoo men went at the Chicago convention when they were ready to dicker on a shift from Garner...
After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Comrade Koba's name was great in Russia, where Lenin called him "Stalin" (meaning "Steel") but he still had a wife. Did she die of pneumonia? Did Stalin divorce her as the story goes, "by mail"? At any rate potent Comrade Stalin, aged 40 came back to Tiflis in 1919, dazzled the 17-year-old daughter of his locksmith friend and carried her back to Moscow. Presumably he married her. Why not?" A story has it that for the first few years of their life together Stalin, the suspicious Asiatic husband, used to lock...
...potent Aviation Corp.. was persuaded to invite Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord into the directorate of Avco. Mr. Cord had been a painful nuisance to Avco and other ''pioneer'' operators with his low-fare Century Air Lines, his rambunctious efforts in Washington to get mail contracts. Avco took over Century, gave Mr. Cord 5% of the Corporation's stock. There were expressions of esteem on both sides. But the industry, aware of Mr. Cord as a shrewd, aggressive operator, accustomed to running things his own way, wondered how long it would be before an explosion...
...elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven Seas") was convicted of selling Royal Mail stock with a fraudulent prospectus, White Star bulked large in the scrambled affairs of fallen Royal Mail. Still owed to I. M. M. on the purchase price...