Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafés, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward...
Edward J. Pinc (alias Edward Bodery), 32, 6 ft. 2 in., 325 lb., brown hair, with two hands clasped over a heart tattooed on his left forearm, for the theft of U. S. mail pouch containing $16,500 in currency last March at Melrose Park, Ill. He wears a no. 12 shoe, smokes cigars continuously...
Snowy-haired, perspicacious Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen is chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which controls the White Star. Not without soundest reasons did he scrap the world's longest ocean liner keel. When the Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner...
...checker prodigy. At 15 he watched a national tournament knowingly, critically. Irritated, national contenders challenged him to play. He beat them. Two years later he won the U. S. Championship. Two years ago he was on a team which defeated English invaders. Lacking competition in Toledo, he plays by mail with far-off experts. Once he had a postal game with an Australian which lasted more than a year, ended in a draw...
...Mail. Aboard were 50,631 pieces of mail, whose aggregate postal charges were $44,074.11. Of this Germany...