Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Mail Call. But such contrition was not enough to undo the damage. The impact of the Hume note had given all the President's private correspondence an enormous curiosity value and had prompted the world to expect the worst. A letter to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward Hebert, which ordinarily would have aroused only passing interest, made Page One and caused a second round of lugubrious headshaking...
Before the President took to the radio, the wildcat strike of railroad switchmen and yardmen threatened to be one of the ugliest in U.S. history. It was timed cunningly, to put the best face on it. The strikers were out to delay a maximum of Christmas mail and hold up deliveries to Korea, thus win higher pay. The strike started in Chicago, where 8,500 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen reported "sick" and refused to work. Within 24 hours, 50,000 trainmen were idle in ten U.S. cities, and traffic was snarled on 30 of the nation...
...silent yards from St. Louis to Washington, thousands of freight cars stood on the sidings, many of them loaded with high-priority defense materials. An avalanche of Christmas packages clogged the post offices and a partial embargo was slapped on mail. The Railway Express Agency suspended service in 15 states; steel and auto companies began banking their furnaces, shutting down production lines...
...welcome Clement Attlee back from his White House conferences, the London Daily Mail ran a cartoon of the Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
...Roman Catholic priest. He suggested to Presbyterian Curtis a few months ago that people do not know enough about euthanasia or what the real issues are. Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering the public...