Word: postals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postal Shock Troops...
...Postal workers view TIME'S try at painting the Roper lily (Letters, Aug. 28) as scarcely TiME-worthy. In no wise existing on "public money on which the taxpayer gets no tangible returns," the postal service renders as tangible and indispensable a service as that given by the telephone, telegraph, railway and express companies. And ''public money" is public money whether paid indirectly through the Postoffice Department or directly to a utility...
...Postal salaries were thoroughly deflated during the World War. Having no part in the wage rises given the Government-controlled railway workers, letter carriers and postal clerks stuck to their jobs at wages one-half those paid to textile workers. Salaries were not equitably adjusted until 1925. And the classification act of that year was admittedly a compromise, a lower wage than was just being fixed, coupled with an assurance of decreased living costs. Now, in the face of assured inflation and soaring prices, postal salaries must once more be "deflated...
...applying the heat" to the NRA campaign began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility company which claimed...
...York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities in 1931, given a 15-year sentence, but while awaiting the outcome of an appeal died in jail...