James Farley
Former United States Postmaster GeneralWikipedia
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Sep 17, 2026
Tail DraggerHOST
This was the 1930s.
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Postmaster General James Farley was on hand.
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There were speeches.
Tail DraggerHOST
They loaded 111,000 pieces of airmail, about a ton and a half of it, because that inaugural flight was technically a mail flight.
Tail DraggerHOST
The departure ceremony was an event of the first order.
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Postmaster General James Farley had traveled from Washington to be there.
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The governor of California was present.
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Radio broadcasts went out live across the country.
John MerrimanHOST
So, what they did is they got a hold of some D-Day landing filled them with Coca-Cola, and the Coca-Cola Company landed on the shores of Finland, literally, with all these publicity material and with 720,000 bottles of Coca-Cola.
John MerrimanHOST
Now, the chairman of, I didn't know this either until I read Keisel, the chairman of Coca-Cola was James Farley, who was a former aide to Franklin Roosevelt, and thus he had good contacts.
John MerrimanHOST
and he was a militant anti-communist who identified the drinking of Coca-Cola with democracy.
John MerrimanHOST
The Soviets, and in their satellite states, did not drink Coca-Cola, but good old Americans drank Coca-Cola.