Word: postman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...constitution guarantees to everyone the right to express his opinions whatever these may be. This right is naturally limited by any contract into which the individual may enter which requires him to spend part of his time in occupations other than expressing his opinions. Thus, if a salesman, a postman, a tailor and a teacher of mathematics all happen to hold a certain opinion on a subject unrelated to their work, whatever it may be, none of them should devote to oratory on this subject time which they have been paid to spend in selling, delivering letters, making suits...
...other candidates declined except Kenneth Crawford. Meanwhile, the New York Guild had looked over Crawford's record, found him eminently suitable, seconded his nomination. So last week, by default, without the formality of an election, Postman Crawford became president of the American Newspaper Guild...