Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winner Howard the $4,500 prize money came in handy. A married airmail pilot with a distinguished racing record, he constantly designs new racing planes, had sunk his last cent in Mister Mulligan. A dark, lanky, unostentatious man of 31, he contrasts strongly with swashbuckling, peacocky Colonel Turner, who last week thirsted for revenge, waited impatiently for the final spectacular Thompson Trophy Race in which he hoped to regain his laurels as No. 1 U. S. speedster...
...send up questions to help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson...
Died. Frank Harris Hitchcock, 65, Postmaster General in the Taft Administration, publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen; of pneumonia; in Tucson, Ariz. As Postmaster General he started postal savings, parcel post, airmail...
...remained for mild-seeming Paul Yates, as assistant to Governor Pearson, to make the biggest noise of all. Turning, against his superior, he posted his resignation to Washington by airmail last autumn. While it was en route, Secretary Ickes discharged him, denounced him as a "trouble-maker." With Senate and House Committees on Territories & Insular Affairs, Mr. Yates filed charges of extravagance, inefficiency and corruption against Governor Pearson, demanded an investigation. Senator Tydings took up the cause, persuaded the Senate to let him head an investigating committee. By that time the Islands had become such a snarling, spitting, riotous cage...
When the Army's dismal performance with the airmail caused a public outcry last year, the Administration felt constrained to find a scapegoat. It had been the opinion of Major General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, that the Army could fly the mail. Major General Foulois was investigated by a House Military Affairs subcommittee, which indignantly demanded his dismissal...