National Affairs: Veto Sustained

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 in the U.S. can identify the man. He is the confused...

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