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Word: postalized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obligations by saddling the Federal Bench with unknowns" nominated by Tammany and The Bronx's Boss Edward J. Flynn. The Republicans "earned a cheer for having accepted the principle of social security." James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries." All of which indicated that in his 36 years in the newspaper business, Roy Howard has learned, like a movie hero's wife, how to be an office holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hawkins for Howard | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Born. To Songwriter Irving Berlin, 48, and Ellin Mackay Berlin, 32, daughter of Postal Telegraph's Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay: their third daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Sisters: Ellin, 9, Linda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...received yesterday noon by postal authorities who handed it over to the State Police. Finding Davis' name on the package they got in touch with him immediately and took him to the State House for questioning. Later he was brought back to Harvard where the questioning continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Admits Sending Candy Bomb to Curley After Grilling by State Police | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

Third box, addressed to Judge Benjamin R. Jones, was intercepted by postal officials. Former Sheriff Luther Kniffen's box had a defective fuse. Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, was intercepted at Hazelton before it reached another James Gorman. That evening fire, supposed to have been started by an incendiary bomb, gutted the first floor of St. Mary's Rectory of Wilkes-Barre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Easter Presents | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...thunder stuff: political muckraking, frame-ups, jail-breaks, murder, the lash, electrocution. The action moved so fast we forgot all about the possible exaggerations and errors, all except one little flaw where a Western Union messenger boy delivers a telegram which turns out to be printed-on a Postal Telegraph blank. You have probably never heard of Donald Woods or Kay Linaker, the principal pair in the cast, but go to see them in "Road Gang." You'll like the picture, even if you are from Georgia...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/17/1936 | See Source »

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