Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into China's 2,250,000 strangely assorted soldiers he has rammed some rudiments of Christian conduct and morality. Privates are no longer supposed to cheer their officers if they announce they have sold out to the enemy for a good price and are disposed to pay a bonus all round if the troops will fight against Generalissimo Chiang. The troops are also not supposed to pick their noses, but to date it is no secret that whenever the Dictator's back is turned there is much reversion to many a nasty habit. The Premier has, however, about...
...American Legion was founded ostensibly to foster patriotism, and to continue to serve the country in peace as in war. Since the war, the Legion has demanded a bonus for their war services, based on what logic it is difficult to see. They forced payment of that bonus years before it was due. Now they are pressing on to demand pensions for every member, and for their families, no matter when required. Beside these mammoth treasury raids, unhesitatingly made in times of severe economic distress, the petty steals in disability pensions which produced such paradoxes as football players drawing total...
...recovery, of less than 4 billions a year. In order to do so it has juggled its bookkeeping. One trick is to omit from the totals such items as pay ments to trust funds, certain District of Columbia expenditures, half the annual sinking fund payment for the Soldiers' Bonus. These items are furtively listed only in the appendix of the budget report. The apparent saving from this source has been $188,000,000 to $238,000,000 a year. "This," sarcastically declared the country's only living ex-President, "is one of the easiest methods of reducing Government...
...bonus, its goal of years, had been won nine years before it was due." News or editorial on a falsehood...
This year, Forecaster Dunn has announced that his checking of readerships against the political bias of their newspapers enabled him correctly to predict the Congressional passage of the Bonus, the passage of the Wheeler-Reyburn Public Utility Bill. A Wall Streeter until his brokerage business folded up in 1931. Forecaster Dunn got his idea of tabulating putative editorial influence two years ago. The Landon prediction is in the nature of a public try-out for a weekly prediction which Mr. Dunn wishes to market as a "commercial protection service." If Alf M. Landon is elected next month, Rogers C. Dunn...