Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the opponents in shoulder-to-shoulder matches are Boston University, M.I.T., Bowdoin, and Yale. Because of the distance to many of the competing teams, some matches will be conducted by mail...
Between the Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German...
...Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was censored. Next week Editor Blum tried a trick that worked for Georges Clemenceau in War I: he sent copies of a censored article by mail to members of the Chamber of Deputies. They were seized by postal censors...
First fruit of the Reynaud-Simon agreement was resumption, last week, of telephone service for businessmen between London and Paris. Next fruit: restoration of regular mail schedules...
...Princess' claim that he promised to pay her $20,000 a year for the rest of her life, Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, boomed "Preposterous!" He admitted paying her $250,000 in six years to handle his relations with Adolf Hitler and other European bigwigs, naively explaining: "I expected her to live like a queen." But when asked if she was his ambassador, prognathous Rothermere replied with heavy humor: "I am not a sovereign state...