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Word: postals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solution to his great predecessor's problem. By Executive Order, in Congress' absence, he snatched 13.730 first, second and third class postmasterships out of the spoils trough, providing that they should hereafter be filled by: 1) postmasters already in office, after noncompetitive civil service examinations; 2) postal employes with civil service ratings, also after noncompetitive examinations; 3) applicants scoring highest in open competitive examinations (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Spoilsmen Foiled | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Five alumni will be elected to the vacancies on the Board of Overseers this spring out of 14 nominations. The 14 nominees were selected by the committee on nominations of the Alumni Association, and will be elected by a postal ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVERSEER BOARD WILL CHOOSE FIVE NEW MEN | 1/12/1937 | See Source »

...April 15 the team meets M.I.T. again in Boston. On successive weeks they meet Cornell in an intercollegiate match and Yale in an R.O.T.C. postal match. Here each team shoots simultaneously in its own gallery and the results are mailed to the judges. On May 6 the Metropolitan League meets here in Memorial Hall and on May 12 the season closes with a competition among the individual members of the team. Medals are given out and officers will be elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PISTOL CLUB TO HOLD SECOND METROPOLITAN LEAGUE MATCH TONIGHT | 1/7/1937 | See Source »

Monthly matches will be held in the Metropolitan League until February when postal matches will be held in the Intercollegiate Pistol League. Captain Lawrence B. Bixby is in charge of the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PISTOL TEAM LOSES TO TECH FACULTY 790-809 | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

...innovating President followed up this gesture by legally instituting a new festival known as Communications Day. His notion of celebrating it was to cancel all public communications by giving telephone, telegraph and postal workers a holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Less Rum, More Radios | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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