Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postal officials are already handling the three million odd blanks for the nation's employers and will soon be busy with the millions to follow for the American workers. Everywhere the tide is sweeping on, whether to end in failure or universal acceptance it is, perhaps, too early to say. Whatever the result, the idea has caught, and failure will not be attributable to lack of popular feeling or acceptance...
...Brush your teeth, comb your hair, hurry to bed, say your prayer, and before you know it I will be there. This year "Tourate" telegrams have been introduced, which grant a low wordage charge on messages containing strictly travel information. Postal Telegraph in most cases has duplicated Western Union's special message arrangements, but last week had no intention of trying to match Western Union's football service. Parents, friends and rooters may have delivered to any locker room in the country any of the following inspiring sentiments...
What action if any the Postal authorities will take is not known at present. The superintendent at the Cambridge office declared that he knew nothing about the matter
Boiling, fretful excitement, hard work and long hours are a thing of the past in the Tercentenary Office, Lehman Hall, and the U. S. postal agents are carrying the brunt of the remaining work as hundreds of congratulatory letters pour in daily from alumni, faculty, and delegates who attended the Celebration two weeks past...
Another room contains a couple of dozen typewriters, Western Union and Postal Telegraph press blank, and a dozen messengers ready at the beck and call of reporters who have been forced to reduce the gross poundage of learned papers to one readable story. The heads of the science departments of the three big wire services, the AP, the UP, and the INS, as well as three or four men from each Boston paper and from several other out of town papers, were also present. Science Service, an organization specializing in the gathering of all scientific news, sent a large fraction...