Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill providing for a 5? charge on inquiries as to the delivery of registered and insured mail; sent it to the Senate...
...agriculture, "practkal" courses. Said he: Columbia University, "untaxed because it is an educational institution, is in business; it has education 'to sell.' . . . The 'service' [home study courses] of Columbia is for the most part not education. No single institution can educate 20,000 people by mail, or indeed, in any other way. The whole thing is a business . . . out of which Columbia has made in a single year a profit of $300,000. . . . Coumbia possesses not 48,000 students,* but on a generous estimate, perhaps 4,000. [A student may get degree credit by taking courses...
...morning five years ago Mary Garden received in her sheaf of mail a note from a fledgling composer asking if he might play her some of his music. Such . notes usually go into Mary Garden's wastebasket. But this one appealed to her. With characteristic terseness she wrote the young man to come next day. The result of that audience was an opera called Camille, written by the young man after the story of Alexandre Dumas fils (as is Verdi's Traviata). The premiere was scheduled for this week at Samuel Insull's year-old Chicago Opera...
...Baltimore last week, at a luncheon given by Baltimore Mail Steamship Co., Vice Chairman Edward Clarence Plummer of U. S. Shipping Board made some pertinent remarks in favor of ship subsidy, largely by means of which the U. S. Line's keel-laying was made possible...
Walter Rimciman, British Liberal leader, was appointed dictator of Royal "Mail shipping group, run far off the course of profits by Lord Kylsant...