Word: mails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Multnomah bar (see cut), which, like other Oregon taprooms, serves no hard liquor, were such diverse sourdoughs as Alaska's Episcopal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, Henry Macaulay, first mayor of Dawson, Editor Frank J. Cotter of Seattle's Alaska Weekly, scores of old Yukon prospectors, storekeepers, mail clerks...
...covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General Farley's main reasons for getting back from politicking around the country was to address...
Boss Farley said: 1) That rural lif must be made attractive; the farm-to-city trend is a national menace. And 2) "There is no more attractive ornament to a country home than an artistic, well-preserved mail receptacle...
...wigwam in the city campaign of 1933. Under cross-examination Witness Weinberg admitted he had been a burglar, a gangster, gunman, perjurer, but he denied that it was he who murdered Dutch Schultz. At one point. Defendant Hines, who had been keeping up his spirits by reading his fan mail in court, lost his temper when Weinberg told of conferring with him, cried: "You know you lie!" Thereafter, two respectable witnesses told of seeing Jimmy Hines in company with Dutch Schultz...
Last year, when the Merchant Marine Act terminated all ocean mail contracts. Dollar whirled nearer than ever the maelstrom of 77B. In January, the Maritime Commission caught it just in time, awarded a $1,400,000 temporary six-month subsidy, ordered the leaky financial hull scraped and calked before it would consider a permanent subsidy. When the six-month grant expired, the Dollar crew had not completed the required financial overhaul, proposed instead counter plans that smacked of the old Captain's brass. Typical suggestion was that for the old Captain's bargain ships, on which...