Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution for a committee to sit during the Summer and Fall to investigate campaign expenditures and contributions for and against Presidential and Senatorial candidates...
...Approved a conference report on a bill to increase the salaries of Post Office employes and provide for the publication of campaign contributions (TIME, June 9). The bill was vetoed by the President...
...President vetoed the Postal Pay Increase Bill, carrying an annual cost of some $68,000,000 and a provision for publication of campaign expenditures. He regarded the former portion as undesirable, but declared that he would have approved the latter if it had stood alone. This was his third veto...
...time to consider it and the House did not receive it at all. His third veto, like his first two, was an "economy veto," for the purpose of keeping down Government expenditures. Besides providing increases in postal salaries, the Bill (TIME, June 9) carried a rider for publicity of campaign contributions and expenses. The veto message: "This bill adds approximately $68,000,000 to the annual expenditures of the Government. It makes no provision for raising this amount as postal revenue. The money must come from the pockets of the taxpayers...
...that provision stood alone, I should approve that part of the bill relating to campaign funds...