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...would add up to $211 million less than the Administration's estimate, but at least part of this cut will probably be restored next session with a deficiency appropriation) and 2) the $1.1 billion that Congress voted but the Administration did not ask for, e.g., pay raises for postal workers...
...week's end the President flew back to Washington for conferences on the Middle East and the South, signed 27 bills, but pocket-vetoed one that would have raised the pay of 1,500,000 postal workers and other federal employees a total of $850 million a year on the grounds that it was inflationary. Then he drove to Baltimore to spend 45 minutes at the debut of Niece Ruth Eisenhower, 19-year-old daughter of his brother Milton. He had, indeed, the air of a man with no regrets and with a great deal of calm determination...
...hesitate to vote $1,000,000 for new Senate office furniture, or to provide for the House's new $60 million office building, or to lay out $858 million for pork-barrel projects, or to ante up a $317 million pay raise for 518,000 postal workers (without increasing postal rates to cover the cost...
...nation's capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...
...House voted overwhelming approval (379 to 38) of a $300 million-a-year pay boost to the nation's 525,000 postal workers, showed that it has enough votes to override a potential presidential veto. Waiting in the wings: other bills already approved by both Senate and House committees to raise the pay of approximately 1,000,000 civil servants in other branches of the Federal Government...