Word: senders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prairie du Chien, Wis. on the railway station platform stands a great box. On its side is painted the address: "Prairie du Chien, Wis."-nothing else, no sender, no addressee. None of Prairie du Chien's 3,043 inhabitants has claimed it, all have come to look at it. The box contains an electric chair, designed for human executions...
Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents. In the House of Commons a Laborite M. P. shouted: "This means a declaration of war!" Conservative M. P.'s laughed...
...Cochran of Missouri to make kidnapping across a State line a Federal offense punishable by death have been pushed in Congress. Last week House and Senate Judiciary Committees promised these measures speedy attention, and the House Post Office and Post Roads Committee reported favorably on a bill making the sender of an extortion letter liable to $5,000 fine, or 20 years in prison, or both...
...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 is to be delivered, a function clearly the duty of the sender . . . and would undoubtedly lead to complaints of all kinds from senders concerning nondelivery, duplication, etc. The plan would subject the patrons of the Postal Service to an avalanche of advertising matter of all de- scriptions and the mails would be flooded...