Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed a resolution-with various acrimonious remarks-rescinding Postmaster General Donaldson's curtailment of mail deliveries to one a day. Deliveries will go back to two a day-if the Senate and President agree...
...bill at the Palladium ... is truly remarkable," said the London Times, with fine irony. "It is headed, not by an American but by a British performer!" "This time, for a change," echoed the Daily Mail, "it was not a Hollywood star who had the fans in a frenzy. It was an ex-painter's laborer from South Wales." Last week, after ten straight months of raising the roof over the U.S.'s Tony Martin, Frank Sinatra, et al., London's fickle fans were going wild over a crooner of their...
Stacks of mail were coming to Congressmen, demanding that something be done about rising prices. Like a scared herd, they reacted first in chaos and confusion (TIME, Aug. 14); then almost by stampede, as Administration leaders cracked the whip over them. The House, which had ineffectually tried the week before to ad-lib some sort of law, let Chairman Brent Spence's Banking & Currency Committee write a bill behind committee doors. It passed the House by a lopsided, anticlimactic vote...
...would require registration of the Communist Party and all its members, and of Communist-front organizations and their officers. It would bar Communists from Government jobs, make it a crime for them even to "make application" for passports. Organizations declared to be party-line would have to label their mail "Disseminated by -, a Communist organization." A member of a Communist outfit would be subject to imprisonment and fines if the organization refused to register and he remained a member; he could get as much as five years in prison for every day he failed to register...
Reader Terrence O'Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O'Toole: "Censorship? Slow mail service? Forget to pay the syndicate...