Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dearth of money might have brought real suffering had not big employers like General Motors and Chrysler arranged to cash their own pay checks. Utility and insurance companies waived penalties for late payments. The Post Office Department rushed $5,000,000 from Washington to cover withdrawals from postal savings accounts and to honor money orders. Western Union and Postal Telegraph brought in cash from adjoining States to handle a flood of funds telegraphed to Detroiters...
...most up to last week. Mrs. Kate Meyrick, 60, night club mistress, jailbird, mother-in-law of lords, died last week. Dead too were Aviatrix Winifred Spooner and more than 1,000 others in England & Wales within the week. Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow, London suffered severely. London had 1,100 postal workers sick abed. Leeds curtailed its street car service and could not get its gas meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause of a violent death...
...postmen who unwittingly touched off Mr. de Valera, much as a child playing with matches might happen to light a skyrocket. The head of the Postal Workers' Union is worthy William Norton. Worthy William is also leader of the Free State's small but vital Labor Party whose seven seats in the Dail have held the balance of power. Recently President de Valera decided to cut civil servants' salaries, notably postmen's. As a politician Mr. Norton could see some sense in this but as head of the Postal Workers' Union he could...
Socialist Paul Blanshard described conditions in "Socialopia" the day after the "revolution." An international government speaking an international language would control all battleships, airplanes, munitions, postal rates and currency. In the U. S., State lines would vanish and the President and Congress would be replaced by a national Socialist planning board. The Supreme Court ("nine old men consecrated to the mistakes of their forbears") would be scrapped. The State would enforce birth control. Working mothers would leave their young in a communal nursery in each apartment house...
Because Soprano Anna Case declared that she was through singing except for charity when she married Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., much was made of the fact that fortnight ago, loaded with diamonds, emeralds and orchids, she sang for pay at one of the "Artistic Mornings in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Last week it seemed definitely established that the daughter of the South Branch, N. J., blacksmith had "gone back to work"* when her photographs appeared in the lobby of the Roxy cinemansion to advertise that she would sing there this week. But suddenly...