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What gave rise to these thoughts by Vice President Curtis was evidence dug up by the special Senate committee, headed by Iowa's Senator Brookhart investigating Southern patronage, to the effect that postal workers were going about secretly booming their chief for the next vice-presidential nomination. They emphasized the great friendship between President Hoover and "General" Brown, pointed out that Mr. Curtis would be 72 in 1932, recalled his pre-convention hostility to Herbert Hoover in 1928. What gave these stories a substance of reality was the fact that "General" Brown has been deputized by President Hoover to handle...
...Passed a bill to put all U. S. employes, except postal workers and printers, on a 44-hour-per-week basis (present basis: 48 hours...
...should fail to read, a request from a magazine editor for his views on the Younger Generation, three complaints from parents of the faulty instruction and unjust treatment their sons are receiving, two explosions from alumni who are rabid because the team lost the last big game, and a postal card from 'A Citizen and Taxpayer' denouncing the whole institution as a sink of iniquity and a breeder of irreligion and sedition...
...first and larger of these, a collection of 8000 specimens from eastern and southern China, is the work of J. D. LaTouche, formerly a member of the Chinese Postal Service, and is the result of over forty years of work. During this time, LaTouche was stationed at a number of different posts, and with the assistance of his Chinese, whom he had trained especially in the preparation of specimens, amassed this collection, which is not equalled by any collection of Chinese birds either here or abroad. It forms the basis for his handbook of birds of eastern China; of which...
...Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), he "established pneumatic tubes, ship-posts, pioneered for rural delivery, parcels post, postal savings, and fought for government ownership of telegraph and telephone." In 1896 he bought out A. T. Stewart, went into business in Manhattan...