Into the vacuum created by the Government's cancellation of all its airmail contracts flew the U. S. Army last week. Not for a decade had the military hauled the mails in its fighting planes. But now President Roosevelt had declared an "emergency"' as the result of Postmaster General Farley's sudden discovery of what he thought was "fraud and collusion" in the awarding of airmail contracts to private operators by his predecessor, Republican Walter Folger Brown.
The Army took to its new job like a hawk to the air. Its enthusiasm, however, did...
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