Word: airmailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate had deliberated for six hours on contempt proceedings against William MacCracken Jr., Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, Harris M. Hanshue, Gilbert L. Givvin. All were charged with removing or permitting to be removed from Air Lobbyist MacCracken's Washington offices correspondence previously subpenaed by the Senate's ocean & airmail contract investigating committee (TIME...
...them led by Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of Gastonia. N. C. The Democrats of the House were bitterly determined that the nation's No. 2 hero should not be heard criticizing the nation's No. 1 hero for the latter's peremptory cancellation of all domestic airmail contracts...
Into the vacuum created by the Government's cancellation of all its airmail contracts flew the U. S. Army last week. Not for a decade had the military hauled the mails in its fighting planes. But now President Roosevelt had declared an "emergency"' as the result of Postmaster General Farley's sudden discovery of what he thought was "fraud and collusion" in the awarding of airmail contracts to private operators by his predecessor, Republican Walter Folger Brown...
...mail test flights, two Army planes had forced landings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Three days later a reserve officer called to postal duty was ferrying a Douglas bomber to the Army's western airmail base. He got lost in the Idaho badlands, crashed and burned to death near Jerome. Same day two more reserve pilots were delivering a plane to the western base when they ran into a blizzard near Salt Lake City. Ice coated the ship, bore it down out of control. So inaccessible was the spot in which they died that the pilots' bodies...
Meanwhile the country continued to debate the rights & wrongs of the President's precipitate action on airmail contracts. What his friends had the hardest time explaining away was his wholesale conviction of all airlines without giving any of them a hearing. His motives might have been of the best. He may have been trying to inject a high sense of morals into Government contracts. But his methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure...