Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in February, 1919, passed on him the verdict of "espionage," sentenced him, with a flourish, to 20 years' imprisonment. He never served a day of it. Higher courts reversed the decision. For four years he and his newspaper were refused use of U. S. mails. In 1921 he mused: "A person can mail a letter to the German Kaiser and have it delivered, but none to The Leader or its editors...
Last week Toledo politicians were meditating on the possible significance of another event. Coming home to rest, also to obtain an absentee's ballot for the coming election. Postmaster General Brown found his new, freshly-painted model front-gate mail box bowled over, destroyed...
...Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
...cautiously near land, north up the Japanese coast, then eastward along the Aleutian Islands, then southward along the North American coast. The Atlantic crossing will be fairly direct to Europe as it was last week, as it was last October (TIME, Oct. 22). The Graf Zeppelin will carry mail from Lakehurst around the world to Los Angeles for $3.55 an ounce...
...cooled engine. It is a two seater but three can squeeze into it. It will sell for $200. It was invented by James V. Martin of Martin Aeroplane Factory, Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin is looking for a Wall Street firm to finance it and for a mail order house to distribute it. It is the new "baby car." arrival of which has been for some weeks rumored (TIME, July...