Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reporter David Lawrence, who makes no bones of his antipathy for the New Deal, last month reported: "Uniformly there is the same story-he has pepped up the Republican organizations everywhere and done in a short time a job which could never have been done over the telephone, by mail or through lieutenants. . . . Mr. Hamilton has gotten a background on his present trip which will be invaluable to him when he gets back to headquarters...
...Conchartee, Okla., the arrival of new editions of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs was in the nature of both an economic and literary event. The train was late; the post office truck stalled under the load; the mail carriers were held up in their deliveries. Chosen from the comprehensive array of goods described and pictured within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail...
...Sizzle Pants and thought he was making a good impression. When the girl disappeared, Red blamed Spike for it, got into a fight, shot him dead. Thereupon, by a chain of illogical events Spike's friends lynched the luckless blackamoor Spike had beaten earlier in the evening. Mail-order catalogs had been burned in the flame of local patriotism, but next morning new ones were ordered, and the hot, bitter, hungry life of Conchartee was back to normal...
Sixteen years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co., one of the two great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President...
This desertion by its heir of the main capital of the great mail order empire is partly due to personal reasons - he and his family have become confirmed Philadelphians - and partly to the course of empire. The mail order business is by nature best designed for rural trade, and the great rural regions of the U. S. lie 1) in the Mississippi Valley, 2) in the North Central States (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin) and 3) in the old South. The growth of cities, the building of roads that took farmers to town, the competition of chain stores, led Sears Roebuck...