Word: postals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office Department announced that a portrait of William Howard Taft would appear early this month on all 4¢ stamps, replacing Martha Washington. The first First Lady will not be completely ousted from the mails because her likeness will continue to appear on the reply half of the 2¢ business postal card. (George Washington is on the address half.) The new Taft portrait will be that of the corpulent twenty-seventh President of the U. S., not of the leaner tenth Chief Justice...
...originated in 1928, when 8,885 shares sold at $100. Before the Break last fall they rose to phenomenal heights, now are nominally quoted at $850. Unlike many a new scheme, Dardelet Threadlock Co. has potent backers. On its directorate among other tycoons are Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal and Frank L. Polk of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. The company operates by giving licenses for the manufacture and distribution of its product. Bethlehem Steel and Federal Screw Works are among the manufacturing licensees...
What gave rise to these thoughts by Vice President Curtis was evidence dug up by the special Senate committee, headed by Iowa's Senator Brookhart investigating Southern patronage, to the effect that postal workers were going about secretly booming their chief for the next vice-presidential nomination. They emphasized the great friendship between President Hoover and "General" Brown, pointed out that Mr. Curtis would be 72 in 1932, recalled his pre-convention hostility to Herbert Hoover in 1928. What gave these stories a substance of reality was the fact that "General" Brown has been deputized by President Hoover to handle...
...Department was flayed for renting, often without competitive bids, not less than 27 offices, including those in St. Paul, Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess of the true value of the properties rented...
...Passed a bill to put all U. S. employes, except postal workers and printers, on a 44-hour-per-week basis (present basis: 48 hours...