Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which a Government employe was killed and $300,000 worth of registered mail was stolen. Postmaster General Harry S. New arose with a battle cry: "If it takes the Army and Navy to do it, the United States mails must be protected and the lives of postal employes safeguarded...
...next day Mr. New held conference with Major General Lejeune, Commandant of the Marine Corps, with the result that the marines were forthwith assigned to guard railway terminals, postal cars, and mail trucks which carry registered mail...
...announced that the election will be carried cut by postal ballots...
Within a few days the postal authorities hope to install the necessary equipment and have the branch office in operation. The present delay in delivering the mail is owing to the fact that the Business School is not on Cambridge land but is situated in a suburb of Boston...
...while Postmaster General under President Harding, when critics were legion. "He's little," said one, "but he's loud." He was also efficient, astounded and vexed old-school politicos by making appointments on a merit basis. Many prophesied that Mr. Hays would, within two years, reinvigorate the postal service so shabby under war-administration. Others foretold that soon the mails would be wrecked. People augured, argued, raged. Mr. Hays went into the movies, became the $150,000 a year president of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America...