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Onetime South Dakota lawyer and Democratic National Committeeman, William Washington Howes came into the Farley official family as Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of airmail. When First Assistant Postmaster General Joseph C. O'Mahoney resigned to become U. S. Senator from Wyoming, indications were that his place would go to an outsider. Then William Washington Howes made a speech at Newburgh, N. Y., in which he hailed James Aloysius Farley as "the greatest postmaster general since Benjamin Franklin." Short time later William Washington Howes succeeded Joseph C. O'Mahoney...
Only less sensational than the Howes testimony was the testimony that the "friendly cooperation" of Mark L. Requa, Republican National Committeeman from California and close friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...
...Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture, and Editor Henry J. Haskell of the Kansas City Star; 10) Des Moines, to dine with Register and Tribune Publisher John Cowles; 11 Cedar Rapids, to see Republican Committeeman Harrison Spenglar; and 12) Chicago where Arch Shaw popped up again. Then Mr. Hoover climbed out of his limousine and, next day, on a train to return to Palo Alto...
...fall by the handful. By last week it became apparent that this phase of the New Deal was leading to a new Democratic shuffle of the political cards in the dexterous fingers of James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee. ¶ Arthur Francis Mullen, Committeeman from Nebraska, resigned to continue a lucrative political law practice in Washington. Last week in a stormy Democratic meeting at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Mullen shouted: "I represent the President here." At his command his henchman, Keith Neville, was elected National Committeeman in his stead. ¶Nellie Tayloe Ross. Committeewoman from...
...reside in their states and do not have day-by-day contact with the administration. If it were necessary to line up delegates for a National Convention, which it probably will not be necessary to do in 1936, the office-holder has an even better opportunity than a National Committeeman to see that the wishes of the Administration are carried out. For the man in office has more prestige and influence and inferentially can promise rewards. He is on the inside looking out instead of being on the outside looking...