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...applying the heat" to the NRA campaign began to crop up in the news. At Hyde Park President Roosevelt issued an executive order which permitted cancellation of all government contracts with non-NRA manufacturers. In Manhattan Postmaster General Farley talked of prosecuting violators of NRA agreements under the postal fraud statute. In Washington Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins announced that the Blue Eagle would get all his spending money. The boycott raised its menacing head when General Johnson inaugurated a "Buy Now" campaign with the buying to be done exclusively from NRA members. To a Baltimore utility company which claimed...
...York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities in 1931, given a 15-year sentence, but while awaiting the outcome of an appeal died in jail...
...Postmasterships are divided into four grades depending upon the annual receipts of their offices: first class, receipts above $40,000; second class, $8,000 to $40,000; third class, $1,500 to $8,000; fourth class, below $1,500. At the last counting there were 1,122 first-class postal jobs, 3,425 second-class, 10,485 third-class, 32,672 fourth-class-a total of 47,704. By law the President appoints the first three grades, mostly on the say-so of interested Senators or Representatives. The fourth grade comes up through a competitive civil service examination...
Before the ghastly mistake of 1914-1918 men knew their brothers in other countries almost as well as they do today. There were exchange professors, grants for study abroad, Olympic games since 1896, and gatherings of savants, clerymen, laity, and diplomats to discuss concerns ranging from postal rates to tuberculosis. Men in the trenches had even grimmer human contacts. Yet if the bureaucracies were to decide for war, the nations would respond, and it would be the students who would occupy the trenches hacking at each other. An Oxford Union man would command a bombing squadron, American students who signed...
...policy booster, President Roosevelt instructed the trustees of the Postal Savings Bank to buy $100,000.000 worth of U. S. bonds...