The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia - Smithsonian ...

5 6 • s m i t h s o n i a n c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o h i s t o ry a n d t e c h n o l o g y23. FHWA, America’s Highways, 1776–1976, 98, 100; Ho,From Farm to Table, 5; “War’s Effect on Automobile Trade,”The New York Times, 17 November 1918.24. Fuller, RFD, 246; Ho, From Farm to Table, 5; Bruns,Motorized Mail, 60; “Rouses Senator’s Ire,” The WashingtonPost, 28 May 1916; “Blakslee Apologizes to Senators,” The NewYork Times, 6 September 1916; Albert S. Burleson to U.S. SenatorJohn H. Bankhead, 24 May 1916, Box 1, Entry 185, RG 28,NARA; typewritten statement (undated) from James I. Blaks leedefending himself against congressional criticisms, Box 1, Entry185, RG 28, NARA.25. “Farm- to- Table Parcel Post,” The New York Times, 14April 1918.26. Nash, The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies,1917–1918, 157.27. FHWA, America’s Highways, 1776–1976, 90–93, 98;I. B. Holley, Jr., The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How theUnited States Got Out of the Mud (Durham, N. C.: Carolina AcademicPress, 2008), 110, 111, 115, 117, 133; Dan McNichol,The Roads That Built America, 49–51; “29 Army Trucks End600- Mile Test Trip,” The New York Times, 29 December 1917;“Never Such Need for Motor Trucks,” The New York Times, 6January 1918; “War’s Effect on Automobile Trade,” The NewYork Times, 17 November 1918; Fuller, RFD, 163; Bruns, MotorizedMail, 55, 57–63, 71–74; Daniel P. Carpenter, The Forgingof Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and PolicyInnovation for Executive Agencies, 1862–1928 (Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 2001), 170, 171; Ann Hagedorn,Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York, NY:Simon & Schuster, 2007), 126, 127; “Rural Mail Service PolicyUnder Attack,” Christian Science Monitor, 18 August 1916;Deanna Boyd and Kendra Chen, The History and Experience ofAfrican Americans in America’s Postal Service (accessed 5 December2008), available from http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/africanamericans/p5.html.28. Bruns, Motorized Mail, 6; Mail by Motor (accessed 5December 2008), available from http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/2b1c3_motor.html; “Fords for Postoffice,” TheWashington Post, 3 January 1915.29. James I. Blakslee to Albert G. Metz, 28 February 1919,Box 2, Entry 185, RG 28, NARA.30. “Farm- to- Table Parcel Post,” The New York Times, 14April 1918.31. USPS, The United States Postal Service, 74; Bruns,Motorized Mail, 78; “Motor Trucks for Mail,” The New YorkTimes, 25 September 1910.32. “Never Such Need for Motor Trucks,” The New YorkTimes, 6 January 1918.33. “Never Such Need,” NYT.34. Bruns, Motorized Mail, 99, 102.35. Bruns, Mail on the Move, 169, 173, 175–77; “The PostOffice Rides the Highway,” The Indianapolis Star Magazine, 14September 1952.36. U.S. Post Office Department, Annual Report of thePostmaster General for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1951(Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951), 7.Bibliography“29 Army Trucks End 600- Mile Test Trip,” New York Times, 29December 1917.“Autos Widen Parcel Post,” New York Times, 8 November 1914.“Blakslee Apologizes to Senators,” New York Times, 6 September1916.Blakeslee, James I. Letter to A. S. Guffey, 14 April 1919. Box 1,Entry 185, RG 28. Washington, D. C.: National Archivesand Records Administration.———. Letter to Albert G. Metz, 28 February 1919. Box 2,Entry 185, RG 28. Washington, D. C.: National Archivesand Records Administration.———. Letter to W. G. Howard, 7 April 1919. Box 2, Entry 185,RG 28. Washington, D. C.: National Archives and RecordsAdministration.———. Letter to U.S. Representative M. Clyde Kelly, 19 January1920. Box 1, Entry 185, RG 28. Washington, D. C.:National Archives and Records Administration.———. Statement to Congress. Undated. Box 1, Entry 185, RG28. Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Administration.Boyd, Deanna, and Kendra Chen. “The History and Experienceof African Americans in America’s Postal Service.” SmithsonianNational Postal Museum. http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/africanamericans/p5.html.Bruns, James H. Mail on the Move. Polo, Ill.: TransportationTrails, 1992.———. Motorized Mail. Iola, Wis.: Krause Publications, 1997.Burleson, Albert S. Letter to U.S. Senator John H. Bankhead, 24May 1916. Box 1, Entry 185, RG 28. Washington, D. C.:National Archives and Records Administration.Burner, David. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. New York: AlfredA. Knopf, 1979.Carpenter, Daniel P. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy:Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation for ExecutiveAgencies, 1862–1928. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton UniversityPress, 2001.Cooke, Alistair. Alistair Cooke’s America. New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1973.“Farm- to- Table Parcel Post,” New York Times, 14 April 1918.“Farm- to- Table Plan Appeals to Nation,” New York Times, 30August 1914.“Farmers’ Unrest a Grave Danger, Officials Find,” New YorkTimes, 31 January 1920.“Farmers Respond to War Food Call,” Christian Science Monitor,18 May 1918.