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Bill MacCracken was William Patterson MacCracken Jr., 48, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, secretary of the American Bar Association, aviation lawyer-lobbyist. Last year the Senate charged him with permitting destruction of papers which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days...
...fine European junket. Last week it filed a 254-page report containing 102 suggestions which President Roosevelt sent to Congress with a short, lukewarm message. It was painfully apparent to the six Commissioners that the President was much less interested in their findings now that public feeling over the airmail contract cancellations had subsided than he was a year ago when he solemnly launched them on their labors. Noncommittal was he in his message to Congress on such Commission recommendations as the following...
...Creation of an airmail rate structure based on actual postage receipts, the difference to be made up by direct Federal subsidy...
...Experiments with 2-cent airmail postals and 3-cent single-sheet letters to increase airmail volume...
...Commission also recommended that the Interstate Commerce Commission be empowered temporarily to revise airmail rates under Postmaster General Farley's "bargain" system, pending permanent legislation. Zealous lest the New Deal's attitude toward the "profit motive" be overlooked, the President said: "I concur in this recommendation . . . provided always that the grant of this duty to the Interstate Commerce Commission be subject to provisions against unreasonable profits by any private carrier. . . . It is only fair to suggest that during this period any profits at all by such companies should be a secondary consideration. Government aid in this case...