Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempts were made to mail food and clothing into the plants. Local postmasters refused to accept such parcels on the ground that they were "unusual" shipments and the Post Office had for "30 years" had a rule against making unusual shipments in troubled areas. Steel company officials then charged that a parcel of medicine for a man in one of the besieged plants was opened and sent on its way only after two union leaders had passed upon its contents. To Postmaster General Farley, Republic sent a vigorous protest...
...SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo...
...airlines are in much the same position as adolescent children of divorced parents. By the terms of the divorce (the Air Mail Act of 1934, passed after the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancelation), "Mother" Interstate Commerce Commission has "influence," some jurisdiction. But "Father" Post Office-by control of the airmail subsidy-has the whip-hand. "Mother" I.C.C. would like to let the growing business expand in healthy exuberance. "Father" Post Office, remembering the airmail scandal, treats the airlines like boys in a reform school...
...vote. Few sincerely airminded persons in the U. S. oppose it. The Air Line Pilots' Association unanimously voted in favor of I.C.C. jurisdiction; all the airlines devoutly hope the McCarran-Lea Bill will pass. They have, however, been slow to say so because they fear offending the potent Post Office, which also has a bill in Congress-the Mead Bill giving it even greater power over aviation than...
...Yaleman born' (in New Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life...