Farley, in a manner nearly identical to that of the "Spoils Conference" that started the scandal. Temporary contracts were put into effect on May 8 by the new postmaster general, James A. The Army Air Corps Mail Operation suffered numerous crashes and the deaths of 13 airmen, causing severe public criticism of the Roosevelt Administration. The Air Corps was ill-prepared to conduct a mail operation, particularly at night, and from its outset on February 19 encountered severe winter weather. Two days later Roosevelt cancelled all existing air mail contracts with the airlines and ordered the Air Corps to deliver the mail until new contracts could be let. MacCracken Jr., on February 5, 1934, the only action taken against any former Hoover administration official for the scandal. The Senate investigation resulted in a citation of Contempt of Congress against William P. Acting on those agreements, Brown awarded contracts to the participants through a process that effectively prevented smaller carriers from bidding, resulting in a Senate investigation. Using its provisions, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown held a meeting with the executives of the top airlines, later dubbed the "Spoils Conference", in which the airlines effectively divided among themselves the air mail routes. In 1930, during the administration of President Herbert Hoover, Congress passed the Air Mail Act of 1930.
The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a 1934 congressional investigation of the awarding of contracts to certain airlines to carry airmail and to the use of the U.S. Keystone B-6 twin-engine air mail plane in snow storm
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