Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also in 1939 (Weiss v. U.S., mail fraud), that the ban on wiretap evidence applied to intrastate as well as interstate messages, because "both sorts pass indiscriminately over the same wires...
...fashionable and distinguished-looking Londoner, Mrs. John R. Bassett, found a Christmas note from her son in the mail one day last week. This commonplace occurrence made headlines all over Britain, for Mrs. Bassett is the mother of Guy Burgess, the young British diplomat who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain more than two years ago with his foreign-office colleague, Donald MacLean...
...small to try to make smaller. By standardizing purchases of everything from office furniture to paper clips and toilet tissue. General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, a Chicago textileman and the Government's chief housekeeper, saved $133 million. In the Post Office, switching from heavy canvas to nylon mail sacks will save $800,000 a year in freight...
...Road. In Wellington, New Zealand, Postwoman Nora Guise, 35, was fined ?36 ($100.80) after she admitted that she had tippled on her rounds, carried the day's mail home, burned 20 letters, let the remaining 600 lie around the house...
...Rook. The names of dozens of celebrities, it turned out, had been freely taken in vain. The D.A.V. campaigns used the names of President Eisenhower, former President Truman, and Generals Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur in unauthorized "endorsements," until they were stopped by the threat of a mail-fraud trial. The National Kids Day appeal featured a "testimonial" from Bing Crosby, although Crosby made affidavit that he had never given permission to use his name...