Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John, arguing for Lord Kylsant before Mr. Justice Avory of the Court of Criminal Appeal, lightly brushed aside the fact that some thousands of small investors bought British Royal Mail stock on the basis of the offending prospectus and lost most of their investment. "Surely it is a sad thing," cried Sir John, "if something economical in its information [the prospectus] is to be declared a falsehood. . . . Every word, every figure in the prospectus was accurate. . . . The average of ten years earnings by the Royal Mail which it contained was absolutely correct...
...jumped the Earl of Coventry, rushed to his father-in-law's cell and acquainted Lord Kylsant with the failure of his appeal. Lady Kylsant arrived sobbing. She and the huge man who had been called "Napoleon of the Seas" when he dominated the White Star, Royal Mail and numerous other lines (TIME, Feb. 23) had a last embrace. Then Lord Kylsant said to two warders who were hovering nearby, "My good men, I am ready to go with...
...liked Cambridge. We liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
...Postmaster General Brown authorized the hiring of 176,205 extra employes to handle Christmas mail. C. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania planned to establish relief camps for the jobless, to put them to work building roads...
...Torgsin Stores throughout Russia in which above prices prevail. Last week the Soviet Government gave Sklar's stores a mighty boost. The Government decreed that no more packages containing food may enter Russia destined for private persons. Hereafter the tens of thousands of Russian emigres who have been mailing food to relatives and friends left behind in Russia will have just one recourse. They can pay a sum of money to a representative of Torgsin.* They can mail to anyone in Russia a receipt for their money called a "purchase order." In exchange for this order any Torgsin store...