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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battered and bruised into a confession of his sadism. Police in many States followed clues to other crimes, other murders, all linked to Clarks burg's "Bluebeard" and the matrimonial societies through which he operated. From his papers it was apparent he had conducted at least 115 mail-order "court ships" with lonely, foolish women. Relatives of Widow Asta Buick Eicher, 50, in Park Ridge, Ill., became suspicious when Harry F. Powers, with whom she and her three children had left home after a mail-order courtship, reappeared to claim her house. Letters from Powers postmarked Clarksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: We Make Thousands Happy | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Wall Street's oldest rumors was laid to rest last week. Chief mourners were stockholders of Montgomery Ward & Co. Talk that this Morgan-sponsored mail order house would merge with successful Sears, Roebuck was almost as old as the bull market. Negotiations were known to be in progress again this summer when it was said Sears offered one share for each three shares of Montgomery Ward. The Morgan company apparently asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Ward & Roebuck | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

When you write, address and mail a letter to President Herbert Hoover, The White House, Washington, D. C. it goes, not to him, but to Ira Smith. Mr. Smith has a mustache. He sits at a big desk in the outer Executive offices. His title is White House mail clerk. All day long he opens letters from sacks and sacks of mail, scans them through gold-rimmed glasses. If your letter looks very important, he routes it to Private Secretary Theodore Joslin who may put it before the President. If it looks political, it goes to Political Secretary Walter Newton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Last week this White House mail system came under critical fire. Governor Roosevelt had written President Hoover about the St. Lawrence River development and New York's water power plans. Presumably the letter went to Ira Smith and thereafter was reported "lost." None of the secretaries had seen it. When it did finally turn up-with an answer-at the State Department, much explaining was necessary (see p.12...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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