Word: mailman
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...Americans had ever heard; yet on every Third Reich decree his name had appeared, in a bold, inch-high sweep below the scrawl "Adolf Hitler." In his defense Lammers claimed that, as chief of the Reich Chancellery, he had merely acted as a sort of "notary public" or "glorified mailman." The prosecution thought otherwise. Next to Hitler, Lammers had been one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany...
Sacred & Profane. Mad Lord Orris welcomes poachers and bill collectors with an exquisite bow and regrets profusely that he has only rabbits to offer them. Even the puritanical mailman, who writes religious poetry, gets spring fever so badly that he puts his pen to a theme which he considers "profane"-his wife...
...anybody ever was, he is a born mailman. His father was a fourth-class postmaster at Hanson, a hamlet in southern Illinois. When he was 18, Jesse. started clerking, at $11 a week, at his father's postal counter during the summer months. Winters he taught school. At 23, he gave up his $85 a month teaching job to become a $50 a month letter carrier in Shelbyville...
...cold February morning in 1946, a slender, bespectacled young man walked into the University of Texas registrar's office and applied for admission to the law school. Heman Marion Sweatt, 33, a Houston mailman who had graduated from a small Southern college, was qualified in every respect but one: he was a Negro. He was the first who ever tried to enter the University. He was turned down flat...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People seized upon the Houston mailman for a test case. Its argument: the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Gaines Case (1938) that Negroes must be admitted to white schools, unless "equal facilities" are provided for them by the state. Texas' only state-supported Negro college, Prairie View, was nothing but an overgrown trade school, offered no law course at all. The Texas Attorney General argued right back: race segregation was a part of the state constitution and could not be changed...