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...seven-year-old controversy had almost been forgotten. In 1934 in the midst of a wave of public righteousness Hugo LaFayette Black, then Senator from Alabama with a preternaturally sharp nose for scandals, "exposed" the mail-carrying airlines of the U.S. 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...
Dumbarton Oaks under the direction of Harvard and the Fogg Museum of Art will thus be added to the important group of museums new established in Washington. Among these are the National Gallery of Art (Mellon Foundation). Corcoran Gallery, Freer Gallery, Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, Folger Library, George Hewitt Myers Textile Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and Library of Congress...
Three years ago Adman Raymond Ritchie Morgan approached James Folger of San Francisco, with the rummage sale notion-"the hottest idea I've hit in years"-to sell Mr. Folger's coffee. Coffeeman Folger was impressed when one of the first items disposed of on the program was Mr. Folger's speed boat ($800). The following year, when the air time was expanded to 15 minutes over CBS station KNX, the telephone response put the Hollywood, Hempstead and Hillside exchanges out of order, burned out the generator which operated the busy signal on one, caused the telephone...
...sale went one Silex top ("I'll sell it for 50?; it's like brand-new"); one electric fly catcher for $12, a black & white cocker spaniel ("I'll trade it for a piano"); a $10,000 Monterey home for $7,500. Up, too, went Folger coffee sales, with a 16% increase over the entire area covered by the programs since their inception...
Said Congressman Alonzo Dillard Folger of North Carolina:"Without this remedy . . . hundreds of thousands of people will suffer...