Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail addressed in the past few months "To the Gamest Kid in America" has found its way directly to Clarence Hastings, City Hospital, Syracuse, N. Y. He was 14 and a hero, having lived in a Drinker respirator one day longer than anyone else. His runner-up was Birdsall Sweet, also 14, of Beacon, N. Y. The infantile paralysis epidemic of last summer and autumn (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) had put them in respirators, big sheet steel cans which made a bellows of their listless lungs, pumped air into them (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930; Sept. 21). Stories of Clarence...
Like the Epsom Derby, the Manchester November Handicap, the Grand National is the subject of world-wide lotteries. This year U. S. newssheets were warned by the postal authorities that they would be prosecuted for advertising lotteries if they published the names of lottery winners in mail editions. Many a paper published the names of winners last week in their city editions but did not brave...
Most of those who take books return them to the stacks directly. Others choose to send the stolen volumes through the mail anonymously which is a greater misdemeanor than the original larceny, since the government requires by law that all parcels have return addresses...
...Harry Payne Whitney, convalescing last week from a painful mastoid operation, got a medal in her morning's mail from the American Art Dealers Association "for conspicuous service to art in America." At the same time Mrs. Whitney's most obvious service, the pink and imposing Whitney Museum of American Art. did last week the sort of thing for which it was established. In conjunction with an amusing showing of the works of provincial U. S. painters of the early 19th Century, the museum had a memorial exhibition of the work of the greatest cartoonist the country has produced: Thomas...
Meanwhile the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce concluded hearings on the Grosser bill which would provide mail subsidies for transatlantic airships. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin and his vice president Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsakcr told the committee that their corporation could have two ships ready within three years to begin weekly service of 2½ days per trip. Operating cost they estimated at $70,000 per trip; maximum mail revenue $63,000: maximum passenger load, 80 (at $750 fare...