Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen. Ned H. Goodell, the association's president, presented the car, told Mr. Billany: "You have humanized the service." Last week the Post Office Department found itself in a bad financial predicament. It was haunted as never before by the old problem of deficits...
...conference with Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover called for a quick and thorough study of postal costs by mail classes. At the Post Office Department, many an official was sure that the only remedy lay in increasing postal rates, especially on second and fourth class matter, a proposal which they knew would arouse the bitterest antagonism in Congress, which alone can sanction...
...1/16), President Garfield the largest (74). The Hoover head, unlike Chief Justice Taft's and Alfred Emanuel Smith's,† has no notable bumps or bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President...
...LaGuardia, Governor's Island long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
...swivel-chair, five o'clock tea generals are opposing the use of the Island as an air terminal. It is no longer needed for military purposes. Even the General Staff conceded this at a hearing before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The War Department one time considered selling the Island and even went so far as to have its value appraised. I stopped that by introducing a bill calling for the return of the land to the State as intended in the original grant...