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...might minimize its activities. The right to exclude newspapers from the mails for seditious utterances was absolutely and entirely in the hands of the Postmaster General, and the manner in which he used it caused me to protest so vigorously that it broke off all personal relations between Mr. Burleson and myself...
...Educational opportunities are unequal: Allyn Burleson's children in California get twice as much schooling as Brother David's in Nebraska, three times as much as Brother John's in Kentucky. At least 800,000 have no schools at all. >The teaching profession, says Smith College's retired President William Allan Neilson, consists largely of "timid and unimaginative persons to whom moderate comfort, a moderate competence, moderate security are the reward for a moderate amount of moderately conscientious drudgery...
From profitable Post Office contracts, pneumatic tubes prospered until the War. Then Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson, President Wilson's man-Farley for eight years, persuaded his chief over a golf game to veto the $1,000,000 annual appropriation for ''letters shot through pipes"-Republican pipes. Not until 1922 during the Harding administration were Manhattan's tubes reopened...
Died. Albert Sidney Burleson, 74, one-time (1899-1913) Congressman from Texas, Postmaster General (1913-1921); of heart trouble, in Austin, Tex. Postmaster Burleson built up the parcel post system, established the first regular air mail, advocated, after the War, permanent Government control of telegraph, telephone and cable services...
...reasons given, "the first Postmaster General since Burleson to balance the budget and with a $12,000,000 surplus at that...