Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month Postmaster-General Walter Folger Brown, perusing a roseate stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required...
Teased by reporters, Mr. Calhoun inquired: "Who is F. Scott McBride? I've never met the gentleman. ... I guess we'll have to find out just who Mr. McBride is and exactly who he thinks he is. That's the way I feel about...
...Home Town. In New Jersey, Mr. McBride also had occasion to say: "In my old home town in Ohio the people are dry and are living in a new world. They are making real progress...
...Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California, tall Shakespearian scholar, onetime actor, chairman. Said Mr. Shortridge: "We shall treat everybody alike? the tramp and the millionaire. We care not whether he be clothed in rags or purple and fine linen...
With the finger of suspicion pointed at the shipbuilders by the President's remarks, Mr. Bardo last week made answer...