Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This perception was strengthened by the refusal of postal workers to process mail from Grunwick to its film-service customers. After ignoring pleas from postal union officials to stop their illegal blockade, 100 workers were suspended without pay. They showed up at the local sorting office anyway, delivering mail to private homes in the area before postal officials closed the office...
...Chicago, 92 charged with mail fraud and giving false statements to welfare officials have bilked the public out of nearly $1 million. On the average, they were said to be on the take for more than three years. The purported record holder was a man who had illegally been on welfare for a decade. The Government claims one individual swindled $17,500 during a two-year period, but the mean grab for the 92 was put at $210 a month, or slightly more than $2,500 a year...
...attorney waited until the Chicago Board of Trade had ended its trading for the week. Then Samuel Skinner dropped a bombshell on the world's largest commodity futures exchange. He announced four indictments ranging from mail fraud to income tax violations against one customer, one solicitor (a title analogous to stockbroker) and seven traders...
Vladimir Nabokov has lived all his adult life as an endangered (and dangerous) species. Woe unto the literary pretender who does not get his facts and grammar straight. Titled men of letters must be particularly careful. Edmund Wilson audaciously questioned Nabokov's Russian and was mauled by return mail. Critic George Steiner was the victim of one of the neatest decapitations in literary history. Responding to a generously appreciative essay, Nabokov wrote that "Mr. Steiner's article ("Extraterritorial") is built on solid abstractions and opaque generalizations. A few specific items can be made out and should be corrected...
...celebrated case: James Michael Curley. who was jailed for mail fraud in 1947 during his final term as Boston's mayor, was paid his salary while in prison, and emerged to resume his duties...