Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sustained the President's veto of the bill increasing postal salaries (see Page 5) by vote...
Last spring, Congress passed a bill to increase the pay of postal employes. It was to have cost in the neighborhood of $68,000,000 a year. Last June, just before Congress adjourned, President Coolidge vetoed the bill on the grounds that no provision was made therein for raising the revenue to pay the increased cost. All summer the veto lay on the desks of the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House...
...veto upheld, so was the bill defeated. Although some politicians said otherwise, it was generally the opinion of observers that the defeat of this bill marks the end of postal pay legislation for this session of Congress...
...total vote for the three years has been divided as follows: Postal Commencement Total...
...view of the ample facilities given to the alumni to vote by postal ballot and the small number of votes cast on commencement day, your committee unanimously recommends that the commencement day balloting be abolished and that the alumni of the college be duly notified...