Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luncheon he and President Roosevelt sat talking about NRA. which Mr. Hearst last autumn called "a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties.'' They might also have talked of the Brain Trust, which Hearst papers once called ''infatuates, dogmatists, cheerio pundits." or the cancellation of airmail contracts which Hearst violently opposed. More happily, publisher might have congratulated President on the Stock Exchange Bill, which he warmly favors, or on the silver-buying program which he advocated last September...
...Aircraft & Transport Corp. which last year grossed $26,567,514 from operations, made a net profit of $1,623,022. Of all money spent by the U. S. Government on domestic aviation last year, it got one dollar out of every three. For flying more than half the domestic airmail it received one-third of all mail payments ($5,313, 000). and its manufacturing subsidiaries got about one-third ($5,623,000) of all Army & Navy aircraft expenditures. Over its 6,440 mi. of airways its planes flew more than a million miles a month-more than any other airline...
Month ago Senator Arthur Robinson, an Indiana Republican who can always be trusted to believe the worst about Democrats, suggested that the Senate's ocean-&-airmail investigating committee ought to look into the following: Had Vincent Astor, a director of International Mercantile Marine, and Kermit Roosevelt, an I. M. M. vice president, while aboard the Astor yacht Nourmahal off Florida with their friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, received from P. A. S. Franklin, president of I. M. M., private business messages to be conveyed to the President...
Behind such trifles was masked the significance of the Black committee's resumption of operations. Its investigation of airmail contracts had made a headline stir which the U. S. would not soon forget. But unfinished was its more important inquiry into what profit the U. S. Government got from selling $559,000,000 worth of ships for $40,000,000, from lending $145,000,000 to shipping operators at infinitesimal rates of interest, from paying $140,000,000 in ocean mail subsidies during the last five years...
Postmaster General Farley has been criticized up and down the land for: i) stuffing Government offices with too many deserving but incompetent Democrats; 2) exhibiting bad political strategy in his home State of New York; 3) canceling airmail contracts. But last week Postmaster Farley stole a march on the other members of the Cabinet with a shrewd stroke of business for the Government. With the appearance of a Mother's Da.y stamp bearing a copy of Whistlers Mother (with flowers in one corner), "General" Farley declared with a sure insight into the human heart...