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...Wagner had a cause for civil action against the local manager if the fee were not paid as per contract. He could have demanded cash in advance or the filing of a bond for the payment of the fee. He did neither. Mr. Thomas' patrons suffered discomfort, inconvenience and perhaps financial loss through no fault of their own. Custom, in the forming of which the public has no voice, cannot absolve the artist nor his manager from responsibility...
...Woolley, onetime vice president of Western Air Express, revealed that Ernest Winder Smoot, son of Utah's pious Reed Smoot, longtime Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been hired to "expedite" Comptroller General McCarl's approval of a Western Air bid for an airmail contract. Harris Hanshue. Western Air president, admitted that Ernest Smoot had "sold" his company the idea that he could put the contract through...
...quiet man of 32, Son Ernest sat most of the time with his hand to his mouth. There were embarrassing documents in the record. One was a telegram he had sent to Mr. Hanshue: "Still have hopes General will approve your high bid. ... If he renders decision giving you contract under low bid, accept first checks under protest and file claim for the difference. This seems . . . foolish but it is a precedent in-the general's office. ... If nothing happens first next week my father and I will see McCarl again." A letter written after the contract had been...
When President Roosevelt ordered all domestic airmail contracts canceled, Walter T. Varney telegraphed Postmaster General Farley that he could and would fly the entire U. S. airmail in 20 ships for the postage alone. Though the Varney offer was not taken up, it was not the proposal of a crackpot. In 1925. Mr. Varney got the first private contract to fly U. S. mail in the Pacific Northwest on a line which he later developed into the Salt Lake-Seattle system and sold to United Air Lines six years later...
Fare from Los Angeles to Mexico City on L. A. O. is $105. Mr. Varney hopes to get a mail contract from the Mexican Government. To date, that concession has been the monopoly of Pan American Airways, which flies the Mexican mail from the capital to Brownsville. Tex. and Miami, and, through an affiliate, to El Paso and Nogales. Mr. Varney believes he can shoulder Pan American aside if he has the right politicians working for him. If he does, it will be a man-sized job. for Pan American is so deeply intrenched at home and in 32 other...