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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whalen Days. Bandits entered a Brooklyn home near midnight, four men were killed in resultant battle. At 3 a. m. appeared Commissioner Whalen, "worked on the case" till 8 a. m. He then attended 9 o'clock mass in Manhattan. He then reviewed 800 Postal Telegraph boys at City Hall. He then went to the West 20th Street station on another murder case. He then accompanied his daughter on a gallop through Central Park. He then went home (No. 43 Fifth Avenue), slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New York's Whalen | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...telephotograph is a Bell Telephone electrical reproduction of any picture. A photogram is such a reproduction of a telegram or document which Bell Telephone sends by its telephotograph for Western Union or Postal Telegraph. Photogram offices are everywhere. Telephotograph despatching-receiving stations are at only Boston, Manhattan, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Telephoned Voice | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Post Office share was some 813 millions, most of which will be paid by postal revenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues. The postal deficit was 60 millions greater than expected. Flood control added 16 millions, public buildings 26 millions, pension increases n millions, increased pay for Federal employes 21 millions, Navy and Shipping Board increases 26 millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Eighth Budget | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

TIME acknowledges with gratitude the comment of Subscriber Lawson and 26 other subscribers upon the speed with which its post-election issue was produced and delivered. To Printer R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. and the U. S. Postal Service, all praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Japanese Ears | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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