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...last week at the sight of a member of the Eisenhower Cabinet seeking out late-staying Congressmen to whom he could pour out his budget woes. What, asked the reporter, was the Cabinet member doing at that hour? "You know what I'm doing," snapped Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. "I'm trying to repair George Humphrey's wreckage...
Cannon was still sure that Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield was bluffing in his threat to curtail mail services if Congress did not vote him a $47 million supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year (TIME, April 15). Cannon was wrong: Summerfield was not bluffing...
...Postman's Ring. To Businessman Summerfield., the reports that landed on his Post Office desk were as plain (but by no means as satisfying) as the sales figures had been at his prosperous Chevrolet agency back in Flint, Mich. The Post Office books simply showed that the department was about to run out of money-with three months still to go in the fiscal year. Thus, while the House was still listening to Clarence Cannon's cries of bluff, Summerfield issued the orders that 1) eliminated, effective last week, all regular deliveries on Saturdays, 2) closed all Post...
WASHINGTON, April 16--President Eisenhower signed a 41-million-dollar appropriation bill for the Post Office Department tonight. Postmaster General Summerfield immediately announced the resumption of normal mail service, to be made effective within 24 hours. The money will provide additional operating funds for the remainder of this fiscal year, ending June...
...happy to announce the resumption of normal mail service and am gratified to have the overwhelming affirmative vote of the Congress giving the department funds for this purpose," Summerfield said last night. "Within 24 hours mail service will be back on nearly the same basis it was prior to the issuance of our order last Friday...