Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postmaster General Farley dropped in at the White House for an earnest conference about the payless furloughs ordered for Post Office employes as an economy measure (TIME, March 19). For six weeks that order had not only vexed mail carriers but had brought down criticism on the Administration for cutting pay and laying off men while Industry was ordered to do the reverse. When Mr. Farley left the President he went back to his office and issued an announcement: "Improved business conditions have resulted in a substantial increase in postal revenues. . . . I feel justified in revoking, effective...
...What kind of a showing do you think we could put up in a war if the army can't fly the mail across country even in peace time?" said Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell, one-time stormy petrel of the Army Air Force in a CRIMSON interview. The General, who was in command of the Air Force of the Second Army during the war, resigned several years ago after a violent altercation with his superiors on the subject of a unified air force...
...believe that the air-mail contracts will have to be returned to the lines pretty soon, but the government will have to keep an eye on those fellows. They're out for whatever they...
...Last week, for borrowing $10,000 in 1930 from United's Vice President Paul Henderson, Chase C. Gove. Assistant Superintendent of the Post Office's Railway Mail Service, was suspended (pending investigation). At the time he was deputy to Warren Irving Glover, then Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of airmail contracts...
...control stock and exchanges was beginning to tell. For the first time since the bristling measure was introduced last February, Congressional comment was offered without the tired phrase, "with teeth in it." The people's representatives reported that on some days they received literally sacks of objecting mail, not all from brokers and businessmen but even from schoolteachers and pastors. In the Senate Banking Committee such innocuous sections of the bill as the declaration of public policy (with which even President Whitney of the Stock Exchange found no fault) were centres of rousing wrangles. Alert to the wind...