Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Cook is in charge of the state archives, government mail, and gubernatorial proclamations and commissions. He is a legal go-between on matters to do with petitions and laws. He has frequently served as acting governor...
...subscriber, reader, and admirer of TIME. I am also a subscriber, "looker," and admirer of LIFE. There are, I am certain, many more throughout the world. I want to register one complaint, however. The two magazines come too close together, sometimes by the same mail. In such cases I am like the proverbial ass standing between two haystacks of equal attractiveness. Wouldn't it be possible to have LIFE come earlier in the week? I believe many subscribers would appreciate this...
Meanwhile they had to maintain double safety performance minimums. First United pilot to pass these requirements was Alexander Raymond ("Tommy") Thompson, who ran a flying school and flew mail for 14 years before joining United in 1933. Last week he had flown about a million miles, had 147 hours flying experience in a Douglas, was regarded as one of the best pilots on the Coast...
...time Mr. Atlas was a popular sculptor's model, his clients including James Earle Fraser and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. But his real commercial success dates from 1922 when he started to offer mail-order courses in physiculture. Today he has an office in London as well as Manhattan, claims he has started a total of 500,000 puny people on the road to potent health. Mr. Atlas' formula is "Dynamic Tension" which means pitting one set of muscles against another for exercise instead of using weights, bars, bells, springs...
...Hoffman's Strength & Health "the world's most perfectly developed man" was once described in an article by one Alan Carse as having confessed to a gathering of mail order strongmen at Atlantic City that the only reason he sold his courses without equipment was that after having advertised he could think of no novel item to offer. When the customers began to complain to the postal authorities he simply had to give them something, so he gave them "dynamic tension." Vastly annoyed, Mr. Atlas complained to the Federal Trade Commission. Subsequently Mr. Hoffman cheerfully admitted that there...