Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: the Bonus (1924), restrictive immigration (1924), Boulder Dam (1928), Muscle Shoals (1931), farm relief...
...labor in his attempt at municipal economy. He accepted a low bid for the construction of an administration building at Atlanta's airport. Labor leaders, protesting that the wage scale was too low, got the City Council to pass a measure adding $4,300 as a workers' bonus. Mayor Key, determined to retrench, vetoed it. The Atlanta Federation of Trades picked up the Drys' recall petition, pushed it hard enough to secure last week's election...
...pleasant to Mr. Hill was a decision last .week which granted Richard Reid Rogers a temporary injunction against further bonus payments by American Tobacco to its officers. Attorney Rogers protested against the American bonus system last March soon after it became known that the company sold employes 56,000 shares of stock at $25 when its market value was $112. President Hill received 13,440 shares, equivalent to a $1,200,000 bonus. Few other shareholders have shown any desire to protest, feeling Mr. Hill well deserves to proceed as he sees fit. Federal Judge Francis Caffey, in giving...
...abolition of ad valorem taxes on homes and farms; 4) maximum income taxes on "excess salaries of corporation managers"; 5) impeachment for Federal judges who abuse the power of jurisdiction; 6) conscription of money as well as men in the next war; 7) full payment of the soldier bonus; 8) coinage of "enough gold and silver to meet normal demands"; 9) tariff reduction. Adopting this platform, delegates loudly declared that "the great battle of 1932 is America against Wall Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed a savage political attack upon President Hoover after which a quartet sang...
...voted for: War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), the Volstead Act (1919), the tariff (1922, 1930), tax reduction (1924, 1929), the Transportation Act (1920), the Soldiers' Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Restrictive Immigration...