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Team B: le Putnam; lt Rogstad; lg Sosman; c Lawson; rg Goethals; rt Mallett; re D. Wilson and Farley; qb Strezynski; tb Ainsworth; fb Fisher; wb Bridge...
...temperance sheet, later worked for fabulous Texas Publisher Amon Carter. (He was called "the alltime, all-American Diesel engine of Texas reporting.") In Washington, D.C., as Star-Telegram bureau chief, Evans played shrewd poker and shrewder politics with such admiring pals as Jack Garner, Jesse Jones, Jim Farley (who rewarded him with a Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalship for helping swing the Garner delegates to Roosevelt in the 1932 convention...
...Black charged that Walter Folger ("High-Hat"*) Brown, Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts and ordered the Army to take over the flying of the U.S. mail until a new contract-subsidy system had been worked...
...grew angry with the President and Big Jim Farley. Franklin Roosevelt consulted his Cabinet again, ordered the mail returned to private lines as soon as possible, on conditions barring the "evils of the past." Last week Commissioner Akers cagily found certain of these "evils of the past" were nonexistent, although he did not settle the spoils charges. He indicated that High-Hat Walter Brown's seeming collusion-&-conspiracy policy was an effort to reorganize a chaotic industry. He left the way clearly open for the old companies, since reorganized under new names, to claim damages amounting to about...
...when Postmaster General Farley shook up the airmail contracts in 1934, Woolman saw his chance. With only two planes, 25 employes and more nerve than cash, he snagged the mail contract for the Dallas-Atlanta-Charleston, S.C. run. Meanwhile, 63-year-old ex-Newspaper Publisher Clarence Eugene Faulk, who made $500,000 when he sold his Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning Post, was buying blocks of Delta at $5 a share. Later Delta stock went to $40 (then split 4-for-1) and Faulk went to the president's chair as finance overseer. Woolman became operating vice president...