Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasant fist. "I myself have a cousin who, after 40 years of opium smoking, cured himself of this habit at the age of 62. Others can do likewise if they are determined!" As the Generalissimo and Premier of China, Chiang Kaishek, was not answering the telephone or reading his mail or telegrams during the week, the Christian Marshal could only browbeat lesser officials and they timidly tried to appease him with just a little death. After Feng had stormed for hours, Peiping police produced a half-frozen individual by the name of Lu Ju-hsin, saying they had caught...
...first job with Montgomery Ward in 1921, became general merchandise manager in six years. When he was in charge of Ward's retail stores his ambitions for his end of the business were so great as to jar the habitual harmony between Ward's mail order and retail business. Since he moved from Wilmette, Ill. to Montclair, N. J. he has had a lot of fun fishing as a member of the Atlanta Tuna Club at Block Island...
...government gold worth $6,000,000,000 from New York, Philadelphia and other vaults to the great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. Ordinary railroad charge for such a haul would be some $200,000. Last week it was revealed that the Treasury would take advantage of government mail contracts, send its gold by registered parcel post. At the standard rate of 10? per oz., the postage bill to a private sender would be $19,200,000. Generous Postmaster General Farley is expected to charge Secretary Morgenthau only about...
...mistake. Grandpa's free-&-easy home was also opened to a pair of happy-go-lucky colored folk, the iceman-a Mr. De Pinna-and the milkman, who had no name of his own so Grandpa buried him under his when he died. Grandpa was never bothered with mail after that...
...Tariff Act of 1930. That law is the result of a Federal statute which the late gorilla-like prude, Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), rammed down Congress' throat in 1873. These statutes lump contraceptives with abortifacients, smutty writings and lewd picture postcards as "obscene," and forbid anyone to import, mail or ship them across state boundaries...