Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against: the Tariff (1922), Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill...
...system of compensating those actually disabled in War service. Veterans' organizations proudly disapproved of any pension system and the whole structure of governmental aid was built away from that old practice. On the theory that they would never be pensioned, veterans demanded and received from Congress a Bonus which was called "adjusted compensation." The word "pension" was in disrepute...
...veterans disabled in civil life. Under it a veteran stricken with gout on Dec. 31, 1929 would be compensated equally with a soldier who lost his legs in the first week of fighting. In the debate Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, an A. E. F. veteran who opposed the Bonus, boldly declared that he was ready now to shift the whole governmental aid policy to a pension basis...
...voted for: Tax reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), Farm Relief (1929), the Tariff (1922, 1929), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Immigration Restriction (1923). He voted against: The Soldier Bonus (1924), the 18th Amendment (1918), the Volstead Act (1919), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), Boulder...
Nevertheless the Poet Laureate is a member of the Lord Chamberlain's office. He receives £72 a year, and, as a bonus, can take his choice between an additional £27 or a butt of canary wine. Moreover it was noticed last week, when Poet John Masefield was appointed Laureate, to succeed the late Dr. Robert Bridges, that the sale of his books spurted, both in London and New York, due partly to public clamor, partly to bursts of advertising feverishly concocted overnight by shrewd publishers...