Word: postalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place Peter F. Tague was yesterday sworn into office as Boston's new Postmaster. Equally with reason. He had been the election commissioner of Boston, which surely is a far better qualification for the postmastership than a mere thirty-seven years in the postal service, after all, a postmaster in these days when wishes are Farleys, and beggars may ride, has important responsibilities besides the prosaic work of delivering the mails. Mr. Tague had shown, both as Congressman and as Election Commissioner, that he could admirably fulfill all demands made by the New Deal upon its officials...
Next day Lawyer Davis ripped into the Utility Act as the "most unexcused and unexcusable grasp of power" he had ever seen, "even in these fertile days." Much of his attack was against the broad interpretation of the Federal Government's postal and interstate commerce powers. When chunky, snub-nosed Tom Corcoran suggested that that implied the unconstitutionally of the Securities & Exchange Act, Mr. Davis declared: "Modesty reigned when that Act was drawn and passed and there was a bow at least to constitutional power. I find in this [Utility] Act not so much of a gesture." Earlier...
Citizen Candler dispatched the letter to postal authorities, mused: "I wonder if I could be the Duke de Biltmore and the Count de Coca Cola at the same time...
Died. Frank Harris Hitchcock, 65, Postmaster General in the Taft Administration, publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen; of pneumonia; in Tucson, Ariz. As Postmaster General he started postal savings, parcel post, airmail...
...apartment. Wetzel made his clothes free. Kaskel & Kaskel gave him the latest designs in shirts and underwear, only asked that he let it be discreetly known where he got them. Black, Starr & Frost provided watches and cigaret-cases. Mrs. Clarence Mackay got her husband to let him send Postal telegrams for nothing. Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Gould and Mrs. Vanderbilt gave him passes on their husbands' railroads. He advised women on their clothes and social affairs and husbands did not distrust him. Among multimillionaires who, as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr says, "might hold up the market but could not prevent conversation...