Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where there are subsidies there is apt to be graft and corruption. On that as- sumption the U. S. Senate last summer began looking into air and ocean mail contracts. A special committee headed by Alabama's Black found that U. S. shipping men bought vessels for almost nothing from the Government and then collected fat fees for carrying almost no mail, that U. S. airline executives made big speculative profits while small concerns were being frozen off the air mail map. But not until last week did Senator Black and his committee strike pay dirt that, in newspaper...
...during the previous three weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post Office Department at which Mr. MacCracken presided. The meeting's purpose was to carve up the U. S. air map and apportion mail routes and subsidies. Afterward President Hoover's Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown had given them exactly what they wanted...
When Mr. MacCracken was subpenaed to tell about that meeting he declined to give the Senate Committee access to his correspondence files. His excuse was that as a lawyer he was bound not to betray the confidence of his air mail clients. At Senator Black's suggestion he agreed to wire his clients for permission to open his files. Two days later he calmly admitted to the Committee that the evening before during a heavy snow storm, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, president of Northwest Airways, and Gilbert Givvin, secretary to the President of Western Air Express, had gone...
...same stock are now part of a trust fund administered for Mr. Brown by the Toledo Trust Co.). In Manhattan Mr. Brown promptly told the Press that 95% of his IMM stock was bought before he became Postmaster. He added: "During my service in the Post Office Department no mail contract was awarded to the International Mercantile Marine Co." But a onetime Department of Commerce employe swore that he could not remember when IMM had ever failed to get a contract it asked...
...Brown was alleged to have promised an ocean mail contract to the Philadelphia Mail Steamship Co. in which the Pennsylvania Railroad (225 shares of whose stock and 150 shares of Pennroad Corp. were listed among Mr. Brown's holdings) was interested provided a Senate resolution to hold up the contract was postponed. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania thereupon filibustered the Senate resolution to death last March so the bid could be opened and the award made. But the contract fell through because the steamship company had no ships...