Claim: Walter Folger Brown was a successful political figure from Ohio who was involved in a scandal that killed 13 airmen.
Evidence: 13 airmen killed in accidents
Air Mail Act of 1934 enacted
Modernization of the Air Corps begun United States Senate
Walter Folger Brown
William P. MacCracken, Jr.
U.S. domestic airline industry
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States Army Air Corps
Major General Benjamin Foulois Air Mail Scandal 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. Hoover appointed Brown as postmaster general in 1929. Walter Folger Brown (May 31, 1869 – January 26, 1961) was Postmaster General of the United States from March 5, 1929 to March 4, 1933 under Herbert Hoover's administration. Brown was born in Massillon, Ohio, to Lavinia (née Folger) and James Marshal Brown. He was best known from his involvement in the Air Mail scandal.