Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took over the enterprise after Hartzell's imprisonment, were chief defendants of the 41. Yant had been picked up by a detective from Chicago's confidence game detail who posed as an impatient "investor," got a thorough picture of the whole headquarters operations. When police and postal inspectors finally pounced last April, they impounded $60,000 in cash, $40,000 which was being transmitted to Chicago by express from suckers who had been warned against using the mails to send in their money...
...with two alternates, was chosen, largely because none of them had ever heard of the master of the Golden Hind. One venireman was passed over because he lived in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, once an assistant U. S. attorney and an authority on postal law, set out to save those of his twoscore clients whom he could. It was soon clear that he did not hope to save them all. Passing up Hartzell and Yant, he pointed at some of the others, pleaded: "Whatever may be the truth about the Drake Estate, these people...
...directly-in some activity over which the Federal Government . . . has jurisdiction. If the Constitution be construed to permit what the Public Utility Act aims to accomplish, then Federal authority would embrace practically all the activities of the people. . . . "B.) Congress . . . has exceeded its lawful authority under the postal power granted to it by the Constitution in that the Act arbitrarily and unreasonably denies completely the use of the mails to all persons and corporations embraced within the Act with respect to all of their activities as penalty for noncompliance and a means of compelling compliance. . . . The exclusion bears no relation...
...Queen and myself this- my Silver Jubilee Year-will ever remain one of our happiest memories. ... I rejoice that it has been possible for my Government ... to grant substantial relief to the small taxpayer. I am gratified to observe a further steady increase in employment among my people. . . . Important postal, telegraph and telephone concessions have been made during the year. . . . Measures have been enacted for further assistance to the agricultural industry ... the herring industry . . . tramp shipping...
...spring months of 1935 the team competed in postal matches, against fifteen other college teams, and fired three shoulder to shoulder matches against local teams. The team acquitted itself very well in these matches and showed marked improvement over previous years...