Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual the King was awakened by his valet bringing a cup of tea and his more intimate mail. After breakfast he donned the scarlet & gold of his rank as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear. Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes...
...Ship Subsidy, substituting a forthright system of direct subsidies to shippers for the current indirect and unsavory system of padded ocean-mail contracts. To expand the U. S. merchant marine, the Government will pay up to half the cost of building a ship, lend the operator half of the remainder, pay him an operating subsidy based on the difference between U. S. and foreign costs...
...were invited to send suggestions for improving the Constitution's draft text. As it stood temporarily last week, Russia's proposed new charter aimed to correct such abuses as the Soviet's present suppression of free speech and freedom of the press, spying upon citizens' mail and failure to provide either universal suffrage or secrecy of the ballot. Chairman of the Soviet committee which roughed out the tentative Constitution is Joseph Stalin and into it the Dictator stuck a more imposing status for Georgia in the Caucasus, where he was born. Georgia, when all goes...
...clerks, under the stewardship of precise Malcolm Pratt Aldrich, Mr. Harkness' lawyer and Yale's 1922 football captain, suffice for the job of managing and distributing one of the nation's great fortunes. After routine begging letters have been weeded out, Mr. Harkness reads all his mail, has it shipped around after him whenever he leaves New York...
...caught, commercial racketeers can usually be convicted for mail or bankruptcy fraud, both Federal offenses. But in retail trade a creditor has no recourse against a dead beat except to sue. It is no crime to charge a mink coat, then fail...