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...Fact was, Mr. Farley's operation had been neither unprecedented nor unlawful. Hoover's Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown first performed the bookkeeping trick in 1929, got Congress to validate it the following year.* But not even Congress can turn a bookkeeping trick into anything but a trick. No certified public accountant would ever have approved Jim Farley's own company books if he had tried to balance them as he did the Post Office's. No comfortable legal fiction could relieve U. S. taxpayers from making up the very real $52,000,000 which the Post Office last year...
James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General, who predicted that the U. S. airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
...FOLGER ATHEARN...
Neither would any contract be awarded to any company, "reorganized" or not, which had in its employ any of the 32 officials named by Mr. Farley as having attended Walter Folger Brown's "spoils" conference...
...lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when more stories about lottery winners burgeoned in the newspapers. Republican Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown pointed a monitory finger at a Federal statute which makes lottery information unmailable, under penalty of $1,000 fine and two years imprisonment. Press Associations, always quick to bow to Washington orders, promptly ceased handling lottery news. In November, the New York Dally News defiantly printed the names of ticket holders...