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TIME, Feb. 26, p. 10, "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...
Still digging deep into the refuse pile of canceled airmail contracts. Alabama's smart little Senator Black last week plucked out some new names that made news because of their connections with the Senate...
James G. Woolley, onetime vice president of Western Air Express, revealed that Ernest Winder Smoot, son of Utah's pious Reed Smoot, longtime Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been hired to "expedite" Comptroller General McCarl's approval of a Western Air bid for an airmail contract. Harris Hanshue. Western Air president, admitted that Ernest Smoot had "sold" his company the idea that he could put the contract through...
...important thing from the public standpoint is the efficiency of the service and the saving of human life. Many airmail schedules have been cancelled to prevent accident to the army flyers. It will take a long time for the army to be able to operate airmail-schedules efficiently. The training in night flying is something which it took the private pilots a long time to acquire and it has not been a part of the army routine...
Nearly a month has gone by since the airmail service was interrupted and there are no signs of a return to normal except a lot of conversation in and around the capitol. But it would not be surprising if the public did not have normal airmail service until the summer months...