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...some of the financial leaders of the country is a more recent development. In opening the new theatre at Stratford both the Prince of Wales and the poet-laureate paid tribute to the American donors without whom the building could not have been erected. On the same day the Folger Memorial Library of Amherst College was dedicated at Washington. In it this country possesses the most valuable collection of Shakespeariana in the world...
Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, most politically-minded member of the Cabinet, was talking to newsmen in the lobby of the White House offices. He had just emerged from a long heart-to-heart talk with President Hoover. Now for the first formal time, he was announcing the obvious: Herbert Hoover would stand for another four years in the White House. What gave "General" Brown's words immense authority was the fact that, after the Chicago convention, he is slated to succeed Senator Fess as chairman of the Republican National Committee and manage the Hoover campaign for reelection. Only...
...voluntary reduction, as high as 50%, was made in air express rates by five airlines operating with Railway Express Agency. The other, and far more important, was a 10% cut in the base pay of all airmail operators, politely "suggested'' to them by Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown...
Organization of the Pioneers may have been hastened by the growing clamor of the "independent" airlines-small ones, for the most part, with no mail contracts -for an investigation of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown's method of awarding contracts to the big companies. The Watres airmail bill, under which contracts are awarded, was frankly designed to "protect the equities of the pioneer operator," a phrase which the independents see interpreted as "them as has, gets." Particularly enraged are they over the practice of granting to a big airmail operator an extension of his contract into territory where...
...West bearing the message of Hooverism. Recently the Federal Farm Board sent a letter into Missouri, where a special election was to be held in the 7th Congressional district, outlining the blessings which have accrued to agrarians from the Republican Agricultural Marketing Act. Gruff, chunky Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, President Hoover's chief political aide in the Cabinet, went a step further last week. Addressing a convention of the National Association of Postmasters at Omaha, Neb., he delivered a speech which only said one thing to his listeners: get busy and stump for the ticket. Coming from...