Walter Folger Brown

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  In 1929 Walter Folger Brown was appointed Postmaster General by President Herbert Hoover and was tasked to study the aviation industry.
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  Brown found there were some 44 airlines operating in the country ranging from successful to fledgling.In his view this was too many for the flight demand of the times.The main source of their revenue was airmail contracts and too much of the success of these airlines was due to the before mentioned cheating.There was little interest in passenger's service when so much could be made flying mail.All this coincided with the passage of the McNary-Watres Act that attempted to consolidate the fledgling airline industry and laid the groundwork for government regulations and subsidies for airlines.The regulations would last until the deregulation of the 1980s.
  
  Brown decided to call a summit meeting in Washington, D.C. and invited all the heads of the largest airlines.

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  Postmaster general Walter Brown took aggressive steps to influence the airline industry, not just to buy larger aircraft powered by more than one engine and equipped with 2-way radios and navigation aids, but also to consolidate and form larger airline companies.
  
  His actions were questioned on issues of legality, and all mail contracts were cancelled in February 1934.

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  The industry was turned upside down in 1934, when the consolidation that had been encouraged by Postmaster Walter Folger Brown came under attack after the Roosevelt administration took office.

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  Walter F. Brown (1929-1933) Postmaster General

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  Walter F. Brown (1929-33) Postmaster General:

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  Walter F. Brown (1929 - 1933): Postmaster General
  
  Walter Folger Brown was born in Massillon, Ohio, on May 31, 1869.He studied law as an apprentice in Ohio and eventually earned a law license.Brown established a practice in Toledo, Ohio, and became active in Republican Party politics.
  
  He served as assistant secretary of commerce from 1927 to 1929, and President Herbert Hoover appointed him Postmaster General in 1929.He served in that capacity until the end of Hoover's term in 1933.During that time, Brown encouraged the development of the airline industry as a means of transporting the U.S. mail.He also worked with Congress to implement and improve the Kelly Air Mail Act of 1929 and subsequent legislation promoting airline mail delivery.
  
  Brown served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940 and 1944.He died on January 1, 1961.

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  The year 1934 also saw a crisis over airmail contracts that former Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown had used to strengthen the airline route structure.

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  Walter F. Brown (1929 - 1933) Postmaster General:

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  In 1930, U.S. Postmaster General Walter Brown used new legislation to modify airmail contracts in an infamous series of meetings with airline executives later called "the Spoils Conferences."By 1933, four enormous holding companies, among them United Aircraft and Transport, dominated American aviation at all levels.
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  Although the investigation revealed that neither the airline executives nor Postmaster Brown had done anything wrong, the Congress passed legislation banning aircraft manufacturers from owning or being owned by airmail carriers.

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  Air Mail Scandal - The Air Mail Scandal is the name that the American press of the 1930s gave to the results of a meeting (the so-called Spoils Conference) of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown and the executives of the top airlines, effectively dividing among them the air mail routes.

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