Word: farleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loudest whistles of all came from the crowd when the bids of American Air Lines' inscrutable Errett Lobban Cord were read off. On the set-up presented by Mr. Farley, Errett Cord had been expected to underbid the field, capture a virtual monopoly of U. S. airmail. Instead, he bid so close to the maximum on eight routes, that he was heavily underbid on all but the Newark-Boston run. He stood to lose even his old southern transcontinental route, having overbid his nearest competitor for half the run by 10?. Obviously fear of Cord competition had caused other...
Likeliest explanations of Cord's high bids: 1) loud cries of "Wolf" had put him on his best behavior; 2) possibility that no contracts would be awarded under Mr. Farley's temporary (three-month) plan because of the imminence of legislation providing for one-year contracts (with an entirely new set of bids) as suggested by President Roosevelt and reported favorably by the House Post Office Committee last week...
...General" Farley appeared relieved last week at the prospective return of the airmail to its old status, he was far from conceding that the Administration had erred. In Newark, whither he went to lay the cornerstone of a new $6,000,000 post office, he repeated his charge that canceled contracts had been "conceived and executed by fraud and collusion," and loudly decried "hostile propaganda" and "political sniping...
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...
...District of Columbia Supreme Court under the "due process" clause of the Constitution to have cancellation of their old contracts annulled and damages awarded. As the U. S. Government may not be sued without its consent, able Attorney William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan directed the suits against Mr. Farley as an individual, not as Postmaster General. Said Post Office Department Solicitor Karl A. Crowley: "A weak effort to evade...