Word: postalized
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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...
...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...
...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...