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The McNary-Watres Air Mail Act of 1930: Herbert Hoover and his impact upon the commercial airline industry of the United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The McNary-Watres Air Mail Act of 1930: Herbert Hoover and his impact upon the commercial airline industry of the United States./
Author:	Rand, Lawrence A.
Description:	264 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-04, Section: A, page: 1313.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-04A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9831755
ISBN:	9780591846393

The McNary-Watres Air Mail Act of 1930: Herbert Hoover and his impact upon the commercial airline industry of the United States.
Rand, Lawrence A.

The McNary-Watres Air Mail Act of 1930: Herbert Hoover and his impact upon the commercial airline industry of the United States. - 264 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-04, Section: A, page: 1313.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1998.

The McNary-Watres Act of 1930 was not a seminal piece of legislation; it was not even a policy-setting law. It was a law that was specially designed to help the government shape the future of the airline industry consistent with views first expounded by Herbert Hoover. The law vastly expanded the powers of the Postmaster General and enabled the Post Office to play an active role in the development of commercial passenger aviation by use of government payments to air mail carriers.

ISBN: 9780591846393Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

The McNary-Watres Air Mail Act of 1930: Herbert Hoover and his impact upon the commercial airline industry of the United States.
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520 $a The McNary-Watres Act of 1930 was not a seminal piece of legislation; it was not even a policy-setting law. It was a law that was specially designed to help the government shape the future of the airline industry consistent with views first expounded by Herbert Hoover. The law vastly expanded the powers of the Postmaster General and enabled the Post Office to play an active role in the development of commercial passenger aviation by use of government payments to air mail carriers.
520 $a Walter Folger Brown, Postmaster General from 1929 through 1933, would use his powers broadened by the law to create an industry that would be dominated by a few airlines.
520 $a Brown first met Herbert Hoover in the early 1920's when the latter was the rising star of American politics. First as an Assistant Secretary when Hoover was Secretary of Commerce, and later as his Postmaster General, Brown was asked by the new President to help build an airline industry that would be economically self-supporting and which would be consistent with Hoover's vision for such a system.
520 $a The focus of the dissertation rests upon the execution of Hoover's economic plan for aviation--a scheme that was anchored more in the man's pragmatic business experience than upon his views on "economic individualism." Hoover was not an ideologue; his economic theories were grounded in fiscal conservatism and Republican Progressivism. Most of all, it was Hoover's love of order and abhorrence of waste and inefficiency that was the driving force behind his desire to build a viable national airline industry.
520 $a The thesis also follows the post-Hoover presidency into the early years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when a young senator from Alabama, Hugo Black, became suspicious of the granting of air mail contracts under Brown. Black suspected collusion, and in a highly charged political environment, began a process that, in the end, almost destroyed the nascent industry. Were it not for the pragmatic actions of FDR's own Postmaster General, James Farley, the commercial airline industry of the United States as shaped by Hoover, might have been deconstructed just as it was beginning to succeed.
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