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Socialist Paul Blanshard described conditions in "Socialopia" the day after the "revolution." An international government speaking an international language would control all battleships, airplanes, munitions, postal rates and currency. In the U. S., State lines would vanish and the President and Congress would be replaced by a national Socialist planning board. The Supreme Court ("nine old men consecrated to the mistakes of their forbears") would be scrapped. The State would enforce birth control. Working mothers would leave their young in a communal nursery in each apartment house...
Because Soprano Anna Case declared that she was through singing except for charity when she married Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal Telegraph & Cable Corp., much was made of the fact that fortnight ago, loaded with diamonds, emeralds and orchids, she sang for pay at one of the "Artistic Mornings in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Last week it seemed definitely established that the daughter of the South Branch, N. J., blacksmith had "gone back to work"* when her photographs appeared in the lobby of the Roxy cinemansion to advertise that she would sing there this week. But suddenly...
Post Office's Brown: "It has been the department's policy to retain all regular employes on its rolls notwithstanding the continued shrinkage of mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...
...realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles for a $3,500 Lincoln, employed it for general utility purposes, bought a second $3,500 Lincoln near the close of the year. Explained Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: "When I looked...
...formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework in a white satin ball gown, frequently retires to her bedroom and communicates with her children on postal cards carried by the maid. An amiable rich Jew. whom she thinks "so Oriental." finally appears to solve her difficulties...