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Word: maile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning at the end of last month, Harry Truman sat down and tackled the accumulation of personal mail that he always handles himself. No advisers were with him. The only other person in his office was his quiet and devoted personal secretary, Miss Rose Conway. The presidential voice droned through the dictation, the Conway pencil traced its neat shorthand-until Mr. Truman's eyes fell on a letter from California's Republican Congressman Gordon L. McDonough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: When I Make a Mistake | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...times had changed. Mail from Ally's Russian readers had dropped to six letters a month, all abusive. And Ally's Soviet circulation agency suddenly announced that sales had dropped from 48,000 copies a week to 28,000. From then on the agency blandly returned, as "unsold," all but 13,500 a week. Since they were still tied in their original bundles, the agency had obviously made no attempt to sell them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Sale | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, it seemed to Directress Lucia Chase (TIME, May 8) that "everybody liked everything"; Edinburgh's Lord Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London Daily Mail solemnly observed that the U.S.'s No. 1 ballet company was "what is popularly known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wow Americana | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Special Delivery. In West Orange, N.J., Postman Daniel Fineran, stung by a wasp while delivering the morning mail, asked a housewife for first aid, was bitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Those who shared in the glory and in the London Daily Mail's ?4,000 purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Swim | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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