postmaster
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Kendall’s reply to the Charleston postmaster was careful but unmistakable.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Both the postmaster general and Congress choose to ignore the elephant in the room—the American Postal Workers Union.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
U.S. in 1838, which limited presidential control of the postmaster general, and Myers v.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025
Her grandfather was postmaster in Lake Nebagamon, Wis., in the 1930s.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Thirty-one Sing Sing wardens had lasted only little over a year; they included a steamfitter, a coal dealer, a horseman, a postmaster, a customs revenue collector, a millionaire and philanthropist, and “assorted ward-heelers.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Southern postmasters thus continued to withhold antislavery periodicals, with the tacit approval of Jackson protégé Kendall.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
He instructed Southern postmasters to record and publicize the names of even individual subscribers to abolitionist newspapers to encourage intimidation by their neighbors and perhaps even compel them to leave the South.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
She has dedicated the honour to "all the sub postmasters that we have lost".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Southern postmasters instituted a comprehensive censorship of mail to prevent antislavery literature from reaching the South.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
Excepting in nine of the larger cities of the state all postmasters are registrars for their respective districts.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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