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Early in the Depression, dapper, white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, board chairman of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., and his wife, who was Opera Singer Anna Case, closed their 50-servant "Harbor Hill" mansion on Long Island, ousted their superintendent from his snug, white lodge on the grounds, moved into the lodge. Last week the Mackays prepared to move back to "Harbor Hill." For the present they will open only the south side of the mansion, keep a skeleton staff...
...year ago last week, Florida's bank clearings, construction, postal receipts, newspaper advertising, railroad traffic had rebounded so high that the State, by Governor Sholtz's proclamation, celebrated a holiday in honor of Recovery. This year Floridians have still greater cause for rejoicing. By final reckonings their biggest business, tourists, was best since the boom days of 1925-26. During the winter, 1,750,000 visitors, a quarter million more than last year, had spent $625,000,000. On horse and greyhound racetracks 2,000,000 persons had bet $36,500,000, up $7,500,000 from last...
...West. By last week, it had become a nationwide epidemic. Even Alfred Emanuel Smith, in his two-thirds-empty Empire State Building, received 1,000 letters. He waste-basketed all except one which contained a dime. President Roosevelt received 200, sent them to Postmaster General Farley, whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last, Jim Farley's postal receipts would eventually balance the U. S. budget...
About a month ago Denver postmen began to grumble at the loads they were lugging. Postal receipts at the Denver Post Office for April climbed dizzily and more than 100 extra hands were called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing...
...members. He does not receive any dimes until after his letters have multiplied six times and his name has moved to the top of the list. Then if the chain is unbroken, he will receive no less than 15,625 dimes ($1,562.50). Chain letters fall afoul of the Postal regulations because if the chain is broken the participants are guilty of making promises they cannot keep. And there is nothing to prevent a sharper from making a handsome profit by mailing out 10,000 letters with his name at the top of each list...