Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rogers, the U. S. No. 1 air traveler, had seen the President, had talked to Major General Foulois, Postmaster General Farley and ex-Postmaster General Brown, Colonel Lindbergh, dozens of airpilots, commercial and military. He had also delivered a speech by radio, designed to smooth over the whole airmail controversy. Afterwards he told newshawks of his missionary work as a peacemaker...
...most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route No. 1 was frozen tight all the way south to Philadelphia. All bus service was suspended. No airmail or air express or air passenger service attempted to get through to Boston...
Died. Joseph Lawrence Hooper, 56, Republican Congressman from Michigan; few hours after he had delivered a diatribe against the emergency airmail bill; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...impulsiveness with which the administration acted may, however, teach a lesson for the future. For if it brings a more cautions course in respect to charges that require at least a hearing and establishment of guilt, then the controversy over airmail will not have been without its constructive benefits...
...revision of such an important policy as the airmail cannot be accomplished in a week...