Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost no Naziism in Liechtenstein," he said. "The population is content to live in a small independent state and wishes to continue the close union with Switzerland." Since 1924 Liechtenstein has been a member of the Swiss customs union, since 1921 has used Swiss currency, has Swiss-administered postal and telegraph systems...
There is no post office in Bug Tussle and nobody in Bug Tussle has a telephone. Almost everybody is almost everybody else's cousin. The citizens of Bug Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...
When Father Coughlin denounced the World Court in 1935, Western Union and Postal Telegraph handled 200,000 telegrams to Congressmen. Last week, result of his exhortation fell just short of that record, but it was second to nothing else in the history of U. S. communications. For hours after his speech, anyone in New York City who hoped to send a telegram had to wait at least an hour because the whole facilities of both Postal Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came...
...nominations. Additional nominations may be made within such time by petition addressed to the secretary and signed by at least three per cent of the then living members of the class. From all the candidates nominated in these manners, three members shall be elected to the class committee by postal ballot of the entire class. The members so elected shall serve until the decennial reunion...
...that the press might well campaign for repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation and distribution" are "far less than those of the Post Office for the same service," says...