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Postmaster General. Of Frank Walker an assistant reported: "He is wrestling mightily with postal problems." Attorney General. Francis Biddle wrote the preface for an OWI pamphlet to be dropped over Norway, composed a speech...
Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) is a 14-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, "the fastest-moving thing in San Joaquin valley." He supports his fatherless family, runs the 220 low hurdles in school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short...
...more than ten years practically every U.S. citizen who has thought about it at all has believed that the only way to make economic sense out of the U.S. telegraph industry was to turn it into a monopoly. Yet during all those years Western Union and Postal Telegraph have continued wasteful (and, for Postal, downright suicidal) competition with each other. At the same time they have had to buck increasing competition from the telephone, the teletype and air mail...
...reason for this economic nonsense is that, under anti-trust laws, a telegraph merger is illegal unless specifically authorized by Congress. And Congress was molasses-slow in wrangling through a bill satisfactory to all parties-particularly to security-minded labor. (The labor confusion was confounded by the fact that Postal has a C.I.O. contract while Western Union is A.F. of L.) Last week, at long last, a telegraph merger bill went to the White House for the President's signature. Its chief labor safeguards might have sounded fair enough during a depression, but they sounded peculiar at a time...
...crisis itself has upped both companies' labor turnover to such an extent that Congress' solicitude for their 65,000 employes will not be nearly so costly as it sounds. And if & when the FCC approves a specific merger plan, the end should more than justify the means. Postal, which went through the wringer only two years ago, is again loaded with debt-this time $9,000,000 of RFC notes-and lost over $4,000,000 last year. Western Union, with some 80% of the U.S. telegraph business, turned in a good profit...