Word: postal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...double postal cards are being sent out to members of the Sophomore class this Friday. They are expected to be in the hands of the class Saturday, and one week will be allowed for their return January 22 being the final date for votes to be accepted...
According to plans announced by the Executive Board of the class last night, the voting will be done on the preferential system. The postal card to be returaed will have the complete list of nominees on it. The voter is to number his choices in the order of his preference. The nominee who receives the least number of points will be elected. Complete direction will be given on the cards addressed to the voters...
...Before man was, or fish or birds or living things were, the postal service existed. . . . Before there was a mode of writing, before there were nations or kings or governments, there were messengers bearing news. "LET THERE BE LIGHT" was the first message to sweep across the face of the earth, according to the book of Genesis; and God, Himself, was the delivering Postman, and for six days God created and delivered messages to the earth, and He, on the seventh day, rested." Thus began the first of many rhapsodies, conceived by U. S. Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan...
Perhaps the busiest of them all is Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. After a conference with President Coolidge last week, he announced that he would have the appropriation bills for the Treasury, Postal and Agriculture Departments ready on the opening day of Congress. Other supply bills will follow a few days later, so that Congress can clean up its necessary routine before Christmas recess and then plunge into controversial measures. Representative Madden was emphatic in denying any slashing of Army and Navy budgets. Said he: "I have seen a lot in the papers...
...collections. Never before in the world's history had such a collection of expert philatelists assembled in one room. Prince Otto of Hungary, exiled in Spain, sent his collection. General F. Hegeman-Lindencrone of Copenhagen, 85, who specializes in Nordic stamps, stamps on the original envelopes, and the postal issues of Schleswig and Holstein, sent 2,000 of his rarest pieces. U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New sent a government exhibition and put on sale (twelve days earlier than he had meant to) a new two-cent stamp to commemorate the Battle of White Plains. Colonel...