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...Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
...81st Congress spent more money than any other Congress in peacetime history. It whittled no significant amount off Harry Truman's budget at any point, but it added a few hundred millions here & there. It gave raises to just about everybody-the President, the Cabinet, high Administration officials, postal and civil-service employees. Its total outlay in cash, contract authority, tax refunds and debt service amounted to a whopping $51 billion...
...million-a-year raise for about 500,000 U.S. postal workers-an average of $100 each (but only half the amount the House had voted...
Divorced. By Mary Ellin Berlin Burden, 22, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin: Socialite Dennis Sheedy Burden, 29; after 14 months of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Tall, toothy John J. Noone, a Washington postal clerk, set about wooing Lady Luck in a scientific sort of way. Forming a syndicate with seven relatives and friends (each was assessed $5), Noone made repeated trips to Manhattan in the hope of being chosen a contestant on the CBS giveaway program Hit the Jackpot. Last April the lightning struck; Noone won prizes grandiloquently announced as worth...