Word: postal
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West Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...
President Eisenhower last week vetoed a bill for the first time this year, the 53rd since taking office. The bill: an 8.8% pay raise for postal workers that would cost $180 million a year...
Only two of Ike's previous vetoes were of major bills. In 1953 he vetoed an attempt to end the 20% excise tax on movie admissions. Last year he vetoed a 5% postal and civil-service pay raise, partly because Congress had refused to finance it with higher postal rates. Repeating this objection last week, the President spoke of "the imperative need for postal rates that will make the postal service self-supporting and be based on service rendered to the user." Said he: "We can no longer afford to continue a costly deficit operation paid for by millions...
...without a majority is to invite a stinging rebuff; party discipline is shattered, and more often than not the leaders come out with less support than they had before. Last week the Republican leaders of the House called for a party conference to work up opposition to the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (the Eisenhower Administration was strongly on record against anything more than a 7.6% increase). The session backfired: Republican Congressmen, angry at their leaders and aware of the powerful postal workers' lobby, joined with Democrats to vote 328 to 66 in favor of the 8.8% hike. Later...
...federal grand jury indicted Greenspun on charges that he violated postal laws by mailing newspapers carrying a column "tending to incite murder or assassination" of McCarthy. Sample lines from the Greenspun column offered in evidence: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end . . . The chances are that McCarthy will be laid to rest at the hands of some poor, innocent slob whose reputation and life he has destroyed through his ... smear technique." Last week, after a five-day trial, a jury deliberated only two hours and 45 minutes, found Greenspun not guilty. Jurors said later that the Government...