Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day it took the Senate three hours' debate to reach a second Bonus vote. The galleries were packed with ex-soldiery. Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware, upholding the President, complained that veterans would "blow in their loans on automobiles and riotous living." He exclaimed: "I do know many ex-soldiers who would steal their certificates from their wives and go out and spend the night with some other woman." Howls and hisses descended upon him from the galleries...
...House and Senate Bonus vote was a triumph for at least three individuals- Democratic Representative Wright Patman of Texas who started the prairie fire in Congress, National Commander Ralph O'Neil whose American Legion blew the blaze bigger, and Owen D. Young who deserted Big Business' fire-fighting squad...
Tall angular Congressman Patman, 37, a War machine gunner, early last winter began his agitation for Bonus-cashing. A missionary Baptist, he spread his gospel of full and immediate payments through the House when his friends assured him he was only crying in a wilderness. He gave the Republican House leadership a bad scare when he got almost 150 signatures to a petition to force the Bonus bill out of committee and into open debate. His converts gave the Battle for the Bonus its first real strength...
...income tax payments up to March 15 will supply enough additional cash to tide the bureau over until the Treasury's March financing; 3) short term loans will raise $200,000.000 in cash which will extinguish an equal amount of securities deposited in the $750,000,000 bonus reserve fund; 4) another $200,000,000 will come in the June financing...
...which he had paid so dearly. Busily he sought to avoid unpopularity such as the late Publisher Frank A. Munsey suffered for scrapping seven Manhattan dailies during his career. The first great headline under Howard's streamer WORLD BOUGHT BY THE TELEGRAM, read: PULITZERS PRESENT A $500,000 BONUS TO THEIR EMPLOYES. Alongside it ran Publisher Howard's statement, almost plaintive, almost apologetic in its assurance that "the consolidation means not the death of The New York World, but its rebirth...