Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash bonus will not pass Congress. I do not think it would be a good thing for such a wholesale distribution of money as was first proposed to take place. It would be a feast for a short while and then famine again for a majority of the recipients. 'A fool and his money are soon parted...
Last week President Hoover wore spectacles of disapproval: He vetoed the Bonus Loan Bill only to have Congress override his objections (see col. 3). He vetoed a Chippewa Indian land bill. He vetoed a bill to hospitalize Army civilians and another to give aliens dismissed from the Army veteran benefits. Week before he had vetoed two other Indian land bills. On the White House "black list" were two more measures apparently doomed to failure-one for U. S. operation of Muscle Shoals (see p. 14) and another to co-ordinate State and Federal employment agencies. In two years...
...Major Hoover vetoes: 1) pension increase for Spanish War veterans (repassed over his objections) ; 2) first disability pension for War veterans (repassed as new legislation); 3) Bonus loans (repassed); 4) Harney County, Ore., land care; 5) 50? Gadsden Purchase coins...
After 43 minutes "reconsideration," the House flouted the President by repassing the Bonus Loan Bill to the tune of 328-to-79, a surplus of 56 votes over the required two-thirds majority. Not a single Democrat was among the 79 who supported the President...
With such enormous pro-Bonus majorities in the House and the Senate, the overriding of the President's veto was anticipated as a matter of course...