Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legionary. A good rabble-rouser, with a quick twangy tongue, he served four years in the Texas Legislature, five years as a local district attorney. Elected to Congress in 1928, he refused to be suppressed with other obscure newcomers. Insistently he demanded that the Government cash its soldier bonus certificates in full. Secretary Mellon tut-tutted him as a wild young man. But Congressman Patman kept harping away on his issue until he had started a backfire among the veteran vote that was stopped only when Congress, over the President's veto, raised the loan value of bonus...
...House Georgia's Crisp proposed annihilating the Farm Board. Alabama's Almon would grant veterans 100% loans on their bonus certificates. Massachusetts' Tinkham wanted a Washington Hall of Fame and New York's Celler, a Negro industrial commission. Georgia's Vinson would build the Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched...
...loud dismay of voteless Washingtonians, it approved proposals by Michigan's Mapes for a District of Columbia tax on incomes and increases in the gasoline and estate levies. It whirled through the Moratorium in eight hours (see col. 3). It passed a measure appropriating $203,000,000 for bonus loans, $120,000 for additional employment agencies. It okayed the $100,000,000 capital increase for the Federal Land Banks after voting down (190-to-165) a general farm moratorium amendment...
...this session. At the request of California's Johnson it asked the State Department to disgorge all diplomatic data on the Manchurian situation and then unanimously called for another investigation of food prices. In an off moment it did pass the House's bill for an additional bonus appropriation which was the first measure to reach the White House for signing this session...
...committee raised the total number of delegates to 1,154 which was 64 more than the 1928 figure. As a bonus for going Republican Texas got 23 additional votes; Virginia, ten; North Carolina, eight; Florida, six; Tennessee, five. Because they had gone for the Brown Derby in 1928, Massachusetts and Rhode Island each had five delegates snipped off their Republican convention strength. Big delegate gainers due to reapportionment of Congressmen based on 1930 census: California, 18; Michigan, 8; New York, 7. Big losers: Missouri, 6; Iowa, 4; Pennsylvania, 4. Republican headquarters is hard pressed for operating cash. Wet Republicans...