Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Senate set out to demonstrate the full measure of its might and power. The galleries were filled with visitors to see the spectacle. As the roll was called the Senators strode in, grim and determined. Senator Hugo Black, the head of the committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings...
...flying. In 1925 the Government awarded its first airmail contract to a private operator. A year later came the Air Commerce Act, and the beginnings of an airway system. Landing fields were hewn out of desert and mountain land. Beacon lights blossomed amid snow-capped peaks. The mail went through, at $3 a pound, with the pilot sitting on a parachute. Now and then, when a certain St. Louis mail pilot came roaring in with capers which today would bring instant dismissal, the Chicago field manager would shout: "Bellies to the ground! Here comes Slim!" A year later "Slim" Lindbergh...
...Lord to the London Daily Mail...
...Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma Swift Hammerstein...
...Farley's letter to Senator Black is all that any supporter of the President in the air-mail scandals can desire. Along with the evidence submitted it forms a clear-out indictment of the aviation companies; various records introduced by Mr. Farley prove that representatives of the companies met and entered into arrangements whereby they agreed not to bid competitively for the air-mail contracts and by which they divided them among themselves. The contracts were then awarded to these companies in direct violation of the Act of June 8, 1872, which provides that "No contract for carrying the mail...