Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lent the Brown Derby by John J. Raskob in 1928. Still unpaid were some bills incurred during the 1932 campaign which put Franklin D. Roosevelt into the White House: $47,650 to Columbia Broadcasting System; $170,571 to National Broadcasting Company; $13,565 to Western Union; $14,122 to Postal Telegraph; $18,067 to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel for campaign headquarters...
Students wanted-Make big money during vacation selling the Ideal should or Braces for men. Postal brings particulars...
...Postal was backing the code, said President White, ''in the hope that they will produce a situation which will either force a consolidation of the telegraph companies, now prohibited by Federal law, or force the Government to take over the properties...
...Neither Postal's President Major General George Sabin Gibbs nor I. T. & T.'s Sosthenes Behn was on hand to defend Postal's stand. But Vice President Howard L. Kern, taking a tip from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, hoisted the red flag of "unfair propaganda." Anyone with half an eye, said he, could see that "the code proposed by NRA was designed to meet the abuses pointed out by Western Union representatives themselves." Though the code would cost Postal $2,767,000 per year in increased wages, the company was willing to subscribe...
...telegraph companies, sided with Western Union against the imposition of a code. Radio Corp., whose stake in the domestic communications business is relatively small, was willing to sign anything that its competitors did. But President White made it clear that Western Union would accept what he thought was a Postal code only by court order. His counsel, maintaining that Congress had no intention of codifying an industry already regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, swore that Western Union was ready to wage "a legal contest along all fronts...