Scott #C24, 30C First Flight NYC to Southampton, 1939, Addressed to Emil Hurja

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Scott #C24
Airmail
, 30C Dull Blue, Transatlantic Issue, Cachet of Northern Trans-Atlantic First Flight from NYC to Southampton, June 24, 1939.
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Emil E. Hurja, was in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inner circle of advisers and at one time Executive Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a personal friend of Postmaster General James A. Farley.  He was the first person to use scientific polling to predict election outcomes and was featured on the March 2, 1936 cover of TIME magazine. Hurja wrote a book entitled
Westward Ho, Fare Paid
, and was publisher of the news weekly
Pathfinder
. A biography about him was written by Melvin Holli, published in 2002, entitled
The Wizard of Washington,
ISBN: 978-0-312-29395-6
. Another book, by Mary E. Stuckey,
Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign,
ISBN: 978-0-271-06647-9, was published recently. It discusses Hurja’s role in the early FDR administration.
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We will be listing several other covers addressed to Mr. Hurja.