Word: postals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Post Office's Brown: "It has been the department's policy to retain all regular employes on its rolls notwithstanding the continued shrinkage of mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...
...realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles for a $3,500 Lincoln, employed it for general utility purposes, bought a second $3,500 Lincoln near the close of the year. Explained Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: "When I looked...
Unlike the existing airlines, which delegate their ground handling to Postal Telegraph or Railway Express Agency, Air Express Corp. will perform its own pick-up and delivery, thus insure full, permanent control of its business sources...
...formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework in a white satin ball gown, frequently retires to her bedroom and communicates with her children on postal cards carried by the maid. An amiable rich Jew. whom she thinks "so Oriental." finally appears to solve her difficulties...
Clerk Kerr, who now has another job. hesitated about re-entering the postal service even at the invitation of the President...