Word: airmail
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...more drastic "permanent" guarantee; 4) the Stock Exchange regulation bill, with teeth; 5) a bill to appropriate $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 for relief and PWA expenses until the next Congress meets. Picked for probable sacrifice: Commodity exchange regulation bill; communications commission bill; permanent airmail bill; Wagner Labor bill. Picked for defeat: The silver purchase bill in its present form, the McLeod bill (see p. 14) and similar measures. To be sure of defeating the silver bill the President placed on his list for passage "some other monetary measure" to help placate the silver block...
...Striking at the airmail snarl the President told Congressional leaders to postpone permanent legislation until next year. He urged a commission to study the whole field of private and military aviation in the meantime, endorsed temporary contracts with private airmail carriers...
...Administration was ready to help the industry to its feet again. Chief causes of the Administration's lasting embarrassment were the interred or incinerated remains of 13 military flyers who died when the Army, on notice too short for proper preparation, was given the nation's airmail to fly. A secondary cause was the charge, pooh-poohed by the Administration but still repeated by many onlookers, that the blow was struck unfairly, before hearing all the defendants' stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover...
...Washington, confusion was confounded when three Republican Senators (Barbour, Davis, Austin) announced they would introduce an amendment to the existing (McNary-Watres) airmail law, restoring all voided contracts and paving the way for wholesale damage suits against the Government...
...borrowing $10,000 in 1930 from United's Vice President Paul Henderson, Chase C. Gove. Assistant Superintendent of the Post Office's Railway Mail Service, was suspended (pending investigation). At the time he was deputy to Warren Irving Glover, then Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of airmail contracts...