Word: postal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirteen Harvard alumni were nominated yesterday to fill the five vacancies on the Board of Overseers that will occur this June. The candidates were selected by the Committee on Nominations of the Harvard Alumni Association, and the election will take place in the spring by postal ballot...
Economy. Another word of caution did the President speak lest Congress, emboldened by his big spending plans, end all economy measures. He asked that such Depression economies as still survive be continued. Comparatively trivial, they include reduced fees for jurors and witnesses in Federal courts, reduced travel allowances for postal employes, no re-enlistment bonuses for Army and Navy, enforced retirement of government employes after 30 years' service, as well as $6,000 less a year for Vice President Garner's official automobile. Nor did he want the 5% pay cut to which Federal employes are still subject...
...contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have applied for seats at the trial. In the little room under the roof, Western Union set up 75 sending machines, Postal 50, a battery calculated to dispatch 1,000,000 words a day on the case. Sheriff John H. Curtiss (who added the second "s" to his name after the exposure of Boat-Builder John H. Curtis) good-naturedly turned over his private office to two news services...
...Post Office's. No comfortable legal fiction could relieve U. S. taxpayers from making up the very real $52,000,000 which the Post Office last year spent in excess of its receipts. As for their Chief's claim to the greatest surplus but one in postal history, even Post Office officials admitted that his budget could not be fairly compared to those before...
...nominations. Additional nominations may be made within such time by petition addressed to the secretary and signed by at least three per cent of then living members of the class. From all the candidates nominated in these two manners three members shall be elected to the class committee by postal ballet of the entire class. The members so elected shall serve until the decenuial re union...