Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political activity' under the law which forbids such action. In order that there may be no misunderstanding, I consider that Mr. Kerr should be reinstated in the postoffice service at once." General Brown ordered Clerk Kerr reinstated, though he declared his record disclosed "several serious infractions of the postal laws and regulations." Explained General Brown: "I believe in taking a liberal view. This is a free country...
Strings of 100, common enough in other events, are almost unheard of in the Grand American. When Arthur E. Sheffield, railway postal clerk of Dixon. Ill., firing from 21 yd., broke 98 out of 100 last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they...
...Olin West, secretary of the American Medical Association, sent word that a movement is under way by Postal and other Civil Service employes to get free medical service at Government expense...
Program, Broadly Nominee Thomas advocates the "class struggle'' involving the peaceful displacement of capitalism by an economic system wherein the State owns and controls production for the common good. This does not mean nationalization of all industry along the lines of the postal service, with the Government owning and running everything to the exclusion of worker and consumer alike. According to Mr. Thomas, the nation would become socialized in the sense that, while the Government would be the proprietor, workers and consumers would be the operators of the industrial machine. He considers government more efficient and honest than private business...
With an estimated 45 votes behind him, Massachusetts' Walsh, never before a Sales Tax champion, suddenly brought forth a measure to make the second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...