Word: postals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Overseers of the University will no longer be elected at polls in the Yard on commencement day, but will be chosen only by postal ballot. This decision, made yesterday by the overseers' committee, shatters a custom which has stood since its inauguration...
...postal ballot has been in use for three years, but the traditional polls in the Yard were still used so alumni who had not already voted by mail could cast their vote on commencement day. Last year only 165 men voted in the Yard out of a total vote of 7163. Inasmuch as the Yard polls seemed of little use now and required the time and work of several men on a day when it meant a sacrifice on their part, the committee recommended to the corporation that the ballot boxes should no longer be placed in the Yard...
...Senate is preparing to obey its own mandate that on Jan. 6 it shall act on the President's veto of the bill which increases the salaries of postal employes. The cost of the proposed pay increases will be between 60 and 70 million dollars a year. The President vetoed it for reasons of economy, saying that it must be accompanied by a measure for raising the extra money...
...serve this purpose, a bill known as the Sterling Bill has been prepared. It calls for an increase of postal rates on nearly all classes of mail except first class. A large part of the raise is to be attached to the rates on second class mail-newspapers and magazines-since this class of mail, according to the Post Office Department, has been causing an annual deficit...
...Senate and House Post Office Committees. The publishers in force attacked it with a great fanfare of protest; they said it was ruinous, they said second class mail had been wrongly accused of causing a deficit. Postmaster General New declared that the bill was fair and absolutely necessary if postal pay was to be increased...