Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Round Peg. Ike kept his business routine to a minimum. For two hours each morning, he went over the mail and dictated answers to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. After that, his two aides, Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, briefed him on the morning news and the day's dilemmas. Confronted by a problem, Ike would think it over for a moment, his forefinger and thumb playing with the cap on his front tooth. Then he would spring from his chair, pace the floor and announce his decision in a quick sentence...
...passed many of them along to local newspapers. AEC Chairman Gordon Dean said that the letter-writing would be investigated, promising "possible disciplinary action or prosecution." But such talk sounded like bureaucratic door-locking after the story was out. The place to begin censorship was in the ships' mail rooms, and no such censorship...
Mowery tried to get into Dannemora prison to see Hoffner himself, but prison officials, angered by Mowery's World-Telly stories, refused him. So Mowery got in by tagging along with the assistant D.A. and posing as his aide. Then prison officials cut off all mail between Mowery and Hoffner. Mowery got around the ban by inserting his questions in letters that others sent to Hoffner. Reporter Mowery wrote more than 60 stories about the case, formed a Hoffner Committee and collected thousands of signatures on a petition for a new trial. But he was still short one crucial...
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union formally protested against such censorship. Some of the Russian magazines were held up or destroyed by U.S. Customs under the law which bans subversive or obscene literature. Since most of the magazines and newspapers come into the U.S. by bulk mail, the customs men have been destroying some of them on the spot. Some of those passed by customs have been held up, or destroyed, by the Post Office under the law that bans mailing of publications that advocate "treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to the laws of the U.S." Acting Postal Solicitor...
...drive is being conducted chiefly on a mail campaign with several thousand letters sent out last week to alumni throughout the country...