Word: airmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides going through the motions of corporate reorganization, each major bidder reshuffled its personnel and de-titled those officials who participated in the airmail "spoils conference" of 1930. United's President Philip G. Johnson stepped down and out and Vice President W. A. Patterson stepped up and in. New president of Eastern Air, T. W. A. and General Air Lines was North American Aviation's President Ernest Robert Breech. Dropped from the lists were famed Pioneers Thomas B. Doe (E. A. T.), Richard W. Robbins (T. W. A.) and Harris M. Hanshue (Western...
...General" Farley appeared relieved last week at the prospective return of the airmail to its old status, he was far from conceding that the Administration had erred. In Newark, whither he went to lay the cornerstone of a new $6,000,000 post office, he repeated his charge that canceled contracts had been "conceived and executed by fraud and collusion," and loudly decried "hostile propaganda" and "political sniping...
Last week the Senate Committee investigation of the airmail passed into the "minority phase" with Senator Austin, Vermont Republican, in command. Called to the witness stand was big, jovial, double-chinned First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes who testified that he had been "proud" of the service under private contractors, that cancellation had been actively pushed by lobbyists who "came in hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts...
Onetime South Dakota lawyer and Democratic National Committeeman, William Washington Howes came into the Farley official family as Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of airmail. When First Assistant Postmaster General Joseph C. O'Mahoney resigned to become U. S. Senator from Wyoming, indications were that his place would go to an outsider. Then William Washington Howes made a speech at Newburgh, N. Y., in which he hailed James Aloysius Farley as "the greatest postmaster general since Benjamin Franklin." Short time later William Washington Howes succeeded Joseph C. O'Mahoney...
Only less sensational than the Howes testimony was the testimony that the "friendly cooperation" of Mark L. Requa, Republican National Committeeman from California and close friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...