Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian nation virtually was at civil war. Railways, postal and telegraphic services . . . were hopelessly disorganized. Industry had been paralyzed for several years by revolutionary strikes. The government had lost all effective authority. Parliament was a feeble confusion of conflicting cliques...
...everyone knows, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (including Newcomb Carlton's Western Union) is the greatest domestic communication system in the U. S. At its head is that young super-executive, President Walter Sherman Gifford. As everyone also knows, the second greatest domestic system is the Mackay-owned Postal Telegraph, which has no telephones...
Photographs of Sosthenes Behn are not easily had. But anyone may regard at leisure the groomed, handsome visage of Clarence Hungerford Mackay in any of the thousands of offices of the Postal Telegraph Co. His father, the late John W. Mackay, rough-palmed Irish '49er, found gold in California river beds and bequeathed its power in bank directorates, cable companies, cash. Son Clarence, polished by European tutors and universities, is less the director of 58 corporations than the member of 27 clubs. To his guest, Edward of Wales, he could display with dignity the world's finest collection...
...will be a "dog eat dog" fight. There is no good reason why one should not decorate his billet doux and otherwise to his heart's content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily drawn...
...closing date for the postal card ballots in the Junior class election has been moved forward to Wednesday, according to an announcement by the committee in charge...