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Major General George Sabin Gibbs who retired as Chief Signal Officer of the U. S. Army to become a vice president of International Telephone 6 Telegraph Corp-(TIME, July 13), was made president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co,, succeeding newlywed Clarence Hungerford Mackay who becomes board chairman. General Gibbs's record in the Army was long and active. He entered the service in 1898 as a private in the sist Iowa Infantry. In 1900, after participating in 28 Spanish War skirmishes & engagements, he was made a first lieutenant, signal officer. He served several years in Alaska and Cuba...
Among the first passengers off S. S. Olympic when she docked in Manhattan were white-mustached Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., and his bride, the former Anna Case of the Metropolitan Opera. They were among the last to leave the pier. Representatives of Mr. Mackay were at hand to expedite the clearance of the couple's 17 pieces of baggage. But customs officers insisted on closely inspecting every piece. Moreover, they questioned and requestioned the owners on the value of each item. Mr. Mackay was nearly speechless with astonishment and indignation. He would personally protest...
...Treasury would be more than $2,000,000,000 in the red next June 30. But Treasury actuaries explained that the July-August period was an inaccurate gauge for a full year, "guessed" that the 1932 deficit would approximate $1,500,000,000. Chief items of increased expense: postal service, public construction to absorb unemployment...
...biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board's fleet;* helium production for the Navy by the Bureau of Mines; Post Office banking in the form of postal savings accounts; lumbering in national forests by the Department of Agriculture; real estate sales by the General Land Office. Private educators could ask to have Howard University (Negro) in Washington put out of business. Railway Express Agency would like to see the Post Office Department get out of the parcel post business...
Because Canada increased its first class postal rate to the U. S. from 2? to 3? on July 1, the Post Office Department ordered U. S. letter mail to Canada to pay 3?-instead of 2? after Sept.1...