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...middle of a Dublin night last week gaunt, scraggle-haired President Eamon de Valera took Ireland by surprise, proclaimed dissolution of the Free State Dail, ordered a general election Jan. 24 and left puzzled Irish postmen wondering where they were...
...deputation of British letter carriers doffed their blue caps and presented a petition at the office of the Postmaster General last week. During the hot weather the British postmen desired permission to wear their shirts "open at the neck...
...Clement Richard Attlee, onetime Mayor of Stepney, onetime Major of the South Lancashire Regiment, and a loyal Laborite. But in the matter of letter carriers' décolletage Postmaster General Attlee is a Major first, then a Laborite. Last week he denied the petition of the perspiring postmen...
Promulgated by the Cabinet in the form of a decree which luckless little King Vittorio Emanuele must sign, these wage cuts will, it was estimated last week, affect 60% of the wage-earning population of Italy, including street-sweepers, bus-drivers, streetcar-conductors, postmen & postmistresses, policemen, workers on the State Railways, employes of the State Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy...
...putting them to the expense of addressing. They wanted to dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster General Brown, rejecting the proposal: "There is no provision of law authorizing the acceptance of unaddressed matter. . . . [It] would place upon the Postal Service the responsibility of selecting the particular individuals to whom the matter...