Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second session of the 74th Congress will be remembered chiefly because it passed the $1,936,213,950 Bonus and appropriated $7,240,216,913 besides AAA, topping the $9,579,756,510 it voted in its first session...
Among some 4,000,000 ex-Service men, I have just received my quota of Bonus Bonds. I was rather surprised to notice Andrew Jackson's picture used on these bonds. I presume the Treasury Department has some system of determining just whose picture is placed on different series of bonds, but didn't they overlook a splendid opportunity of showing Wartime President Wilson's likeness on these Adjusted Service Bonds? It seems to me that sentiment alone would have dictated the use of his picture -and also, wasn't he a Democrat...
...rule, the likeness of Thomas Jefferson is engraved on U. S. bonds of $50 denomination. Andrew Jackson's image went on the Adjusted Service Bonds, said Secretary Morgenthau, because he was "a soldiers' President." For more news about last week's Bonus distribution, see National Affairs...
Last week Mr. Rand descended upon Tonawanda, N. Y., appearing before his striking employes one morning just after police had used nightsticks to break up a scuffle between 100 scabs and 500 pickets. Tonawanda machinery was being crated for Marietta, Ohio, where workers had already capitulated to a $15 bonus offer...
Leaving a $15 bonus offer for the Tonawanda strikers to think about Mr. Rand went to Ilion, where a committee of citizens from both Ilion and neighboring cities were under the distinct impression that the company had threatened to close their plant, too. Mr. Rand soon had the citizens' committee fighting pickets, and some 1,300 in Ilion went back to work. However, as soon as Ilion went back Tonawanda followed suit...