THE CABINET: Sacred Mails

A Greek historian who died some 400 years before Christ, Little Boy Blue blowing his horn, and a couple of cans of sardines, all entered the steel strike situation in Ohio last week. Also a bottle of mineral oil.

Greek Herodotus wrote the slogan which expresses for U. S. citizens the sanctity of the U. S. Mail: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

"Little Boy Blue" was what sarcastic former Senator George Higgins Moses, 68, called New Hampshire's Governor Henry Styles...

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