Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the last week this newspaper has received more mail on a single topic than any time since before the war. It is all about the second "Radcliffe Mother" letter, urging an 18-year old draft, published on this editorial page January 30. That letter and the reaction to its sets up a little lesson in how the press gets news and how readers accept that news. It is not a particularly funny story...
...boys fight a losing battle for the possession of their school; the rugby goals are replaced by lacrosse goals, the boys sleep in the gym, the headmaster in an obscure bathtub. Censorship is imposed on all outgoing mail ("...and mummy, the mistresses are sharing the masters' bedrooms...
...days the Government produced an array of eleven witnesses, who painted a detailed picture of a dedicated Communist. Old associates swore that he had certainly behaved and talked like one when he worked as a messenger for TVA in 1936-37; that he got his mail at a Communist letter "drop" (Box 1692 in the Knoxville post office) used only by party members; that he went to private Communist meetings...
...divisions to keep tabs on all commodity prices. RICHARD L. BOWDITCH, 50, president of Boston's C. H. Sprague & Son Co. (coal), to be price director for transportation, public utilities, fuel, service, imports & exports. JOSEPH N. KALLICK, 37, OPA veteran and executive of Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. mail-order house, to be price director for consumer soft goods...
Leading Canadian newspapers immediately took up Rhys Sale's theme on their editorial pages. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Mr. Sale, we think, spoke for a growing number of the Canadian people." The Vancouver Sun agreed: "Most Canadians share his complaint." Toronto's Globe and Mail said: "It was refreshing to have an outstanding business leader facing the facts, realistically appraising them and then putting his views clearly on the record." The Toronto Telegram called the speech "the loudest, clearest alarm bell that any Canadian has sounded since the outbreak of the Korean...