Word: postalized
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...Harry Truman's own idea to make a career man-and not a politician-his Postmaster General. Not since Benjamin Franklin, who held the job from 1775 to 1776; had there been a PMG who actually knew something about the postal service when he took office...
...anybody ever was, he is a born mailman. His father was a fourth-class postmaster at Hanson, a hamlet in southern Illinois. When he was 18, Jesse. started clerking, at $11 a week, at his father's postal counter during the summer months. Winters he taught school. At 23, he gave up his $85 a month teaching job to become a $50 a month letter carrier in Shelbyville...
Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...Yours Very Truly." As a postal administrator in Washington the last 14 years, Donaldson is still a stranger to most of the town's politicians. He had had a nodding acquaintance with County Judge Harry Truman in Kansas City in the '20s, but in Washington has seen him only infrequently. For the past year he has sometimes sat in at Cabinet meetings for often-absent Bob Hannegan; but he spoke only when spoken...
...Winslow boy (Michael Newell) is dismissed, at the age of 13, from the British Royal Naval College at Osborne for stealing and cashing another boy's five-shilling postal order. Back home, he insists to his father (Alan Webb) that he is innocent, whereupon his father launches what proves a back-breaking struggle to clear his son's name. For the elder Winslow, in challenging an arm of the British Navy, has not only the law's delays and bureaucratic red tape to contend with, but the Admiralty's withering self-assurance and the House...