Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated, amended and passed the first of the routine supply bills, appropriating some 1.1 billions to run the Treasury and Post Office Departments* in fiscal 1929; sent it to the Senate...
...Post Office share was some 813 millions, most of which will be paid by postal revenues...
...fill the post of the late William A. Oldfield of Arkansas as their "whip" (assistant floor-leader), the House Democrats appointed Representative John C. Box, a five-termer from Texas. The Box fame: immigration matters. A Box bill now pending is to put Western Hemisphere nations on the quota basis, to keep Mexicans out of Texas (see The Cabinet, "Labor Report...
...fiscal year for the U. S. begins July i of the previous calendar year, and ends June 30. Fiscal 1929 is thus about half run. Costs of running the country, including debt reductions and meeting deficits of the theoretically self-supporting Post Office Department, have been and will be as follows: Fiscal 1928 $3,643,519,875.13 (actual...
...have had the use of surplus left over from the war." The President declared himself satisfied that money for the Army and Navy air services was well spent. Besides Army & Navy flying, the U. S. air program is carried forward by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Post Office, Agriculture and Commerce Departments. More than 140 millions was provided for the aeronautical work of these branches...