Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services...
...wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot. For the next four decades, from nine to five he bustled in action at Independence Square, went home to dinner with a parcel of manuscripts under his arm, read them until late hours. He shunned public appearances, social life...
...largest parcel of the collection consists of the 36 pieces of Chamber Music, first published in 1907. In this sequence of lyrics 25-year-old Joyce gave his version of love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers...
...read in a low drone from a thick typewritten sheaf of papers. In 15 minutes his audience had dwindled to ten people. An urchin went around begging nickels, got only one. At 10:49 Mr. Berven finished his reading and called out: "Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. i. ... ?" He heard nothing. "Do I hear," asked Mr. Berven, dabbing his brow, "any bid for the properties of St. Mary's College in their entirety?" Two mustached men in panama hats edged up and one of them said: "Leland Groezinger and Gerald S. Levin, as joint tenants...