Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House mail one recent morning, there was a letter to President Eisenhower from General Services Administrator Edmund F. (for Forsman) Mansure. After describing the really fine job he thought he had done as head of the U.S. Government's mammoth purchasing, housekeeping and property-managing agency, Mansure wrote that he was resigning for "personal" reasons. He signed himself "Ed." With pointed promptness, the President shot back a letter to "Mr. Mansure," coolly accepting the resignation. From the exchange, outsiders could guess what insiders knew: before Ed had taken pen in hand, he had been summoned to the White...
Harry worked for Leighton in handling mail, keys, supervising cleaning, and "obliging all the boys," Mrs. Brown said. "You're only 65 once. They turned him out with cold feelings after 20 years. It makes us feel sad to meet him on the street. They didn't even shake his hand," she added...
...over Britain's largest colony. Spearmen whooped and saddlery creaked. Drums bongity-bongity-bongitied. Reed pipes wailed, wooden kafo horns growled out Louis Armstrong blue notes. The Emir of Kano's jester wore his best blue-dyed sheepskin wig and beard. Some of the warriors wore chain mail, wide-bladed swords or helmets of Crusader descent...
...signed or even seen the letter. The letter had been written in his office as a routine thank-you note for an advance page proof of the article, and signed with Benson's name by an assistant who is authorized to handle run-of-the-mill mail. "But," said Benson, "as Secretary of Agriculture, I must take the responsibility for this, and I so do. Of course, the article as .reported to me by my staff does not in the slightest reflect my views. We pulled a boner on this one. I'm sorry...
...letter published in the CRIMSON's The Mail, Jerry A. Coons believes that the United States' stand in refuting the Admission of Red China to the United Nations is based merely upon an observance and respect for the principles set forth in that organization's Charter. In reference to Red China Mr. Coons states, "The United States has been fighting a battle for the specific provisions of the U.N. Charter. This is not a rearguard action, but a forth-right action." In concluding, also referring to Red China, he says, "If we are to bring in immoral 'aggressor' nations...