Word: mailing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Friends and allies were already at work. In Los Angeles, supporters began to set up an office to answer Nixon's mail, plan lecture tours, help with speechwriting and strategy. In Washington, G.O.P. Congressmen invited Nixon to sit in on all meetings of the House-and-Senate Republican policy committees. In Illinois, Missouri and Texas, Republicans were pressing for official recounts of the 1960 votes, less in hopes of upsetting Jack Kennedy than of taking the shine off Kennedy's victory. Nixon himself held no illusions about re versing the 1960 decision,* planned to remain above the rumblings...
...colleague: "I hope the ambassador can afford to feed us." The London Daily Herald had a nice old British lady tiptoe up to five G.I.s and offer to repay past U.S. generosity by sending food parcels to help "your dear ones over the economic crisis." The Daily Mail's Columnist John Jelley found a silver lining in the gold crisis (see BUSINESS), because now Americans "will be forced to realize that the world is not, after all, half antique shop and half soup kitchen with them as guardian angels of both. And we will once again start looking towards...
...Havana resistance promised Fidel Castro no rest-no rest is what he is getting. In the early morning one day last week, eight bombs exploded in the city, knocking out the electricity in a fifth of Havana, including the business district. Burning phosphorous sticks went into the mail drops at the central post office to burn the day's mail collection; another bomb burst a water pipe at an intersection...
Tycoon Kirby keeps a close watch on Alleghany's nickels and dimes. He often hefts the mail sent by subordinates to see if they have used unnecessary postage, shoots thema stiff A.P.K. reprimand if they have. As a hobby he collects, appropriately enough dime novels, e.g., the Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica...
...MAIL ORDER LIFE INSURANCE will be a major item in the new catalogue of Chicago's Aldens, Inc., fourth largest mail order company, if the Illinois Insurance Department approves. By eliminating agents' commissions (often 50% of first-year premium), Aldens plans to sell its insurance at lower prices...