Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genealogy counts for little on Broadway, but nobody in show business can point to humbler origins than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline...
Leading the group is number one man Parkman D. Howe, Jr. '37. Others now shooting in a postal match with Princeton, are: Anton W. Asmuth '38, Richard P. Axten '37, Harry A. Freiburg '39, Henry McC. Godden '36, Spencer D. Howe '37, George A. Matteson '36, Philip Straus '37, Elkan Turk, Jr. '39, and Malcolm S. McN. Watts...
...president, Learned Hand '93; two vice-president, David Cheever '97, and Harrison Tweed '07; and a secretary-treasurer, Clark, govern the Association. The board of Directors consists of 15 men, six apopinted from the faculty and larger Harvard Clubs, and nine elected by postal ballot...
...faith of Drake Estate "heirs" knows no bounds. The Chicago mass trial had not got well under way before the Chamber of Commerce of Madison informed Postal Inspector Robert E. Lewis in Chicago that the racket was still going great guns in Wisconsin, was apparently unquenchable...
...joint opinion, with the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Lawyer Pepper held the Public Utility Act unconstitutional, informing UGI directors: "Because we are convinced that this title cannot be sustained under the commerce power, the postal power or any other [power in the constitution], we have no hesitation in advising the United Gas Improvement Co. and its subsidiary holding companies to refuse to register under...