Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be found no more poignant example of contemporary youth's prematurely cynical attitude toward the failings of its elders than the organization recently founded at Princeton. Calling itself the Veterans of Future Wars, the organization advances as the chief plank of its platform the immediate payment of a bonus to all males who will be killed in the next war. A similar movement at Vassar, The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars, declares that it intends to send delegates to view the future burying ground of the future dead...
...generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming war will otherwise deprive the most deserving block of its veterans of the Bonus by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humour are not to be censored. Youth must play: and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism...
...city of Lead, S. Dak., where Homestake's 2,000 miners and their families live, last week's report was of less interest than the $100 bonus paid each employe last Christmas and the well-founded expectations of similar bonuses to come. Only four and one-half miles from legendary Deadwood, Lead is a wholly-owned company town with a unique mining-town tradition of health and tranquillity. It has never known a depression. There are no pool halls in Lead, no saloons, no drugstore loafers. Homestake spends $65,000 a year on its hospital, more...
...heavy deficits. In his January budget message he made his defense, drew an encouraging picture of a 1937 deficit of only half a billion dollars, smallest of the Depression. That picture was possible because he postponed estimating the amounts needed for Relief, took no notice of the Bonus Bill that Congress was about to pass, and did not anticipate the unconstitutionally of AAA processing taxes...
...model 23-acre plant in Philadelphia. Like its soap formulas, its production, profits and other internal affairs are deep Fels secrets. Last week, therefore, U. S. financial editors rubbed their eyes when they received a brief news release announcing that Fels & Co. had just paid its 35th annual employe bonus. Lowest payment amounted to 22½% of a worker's yearly wages. Attributed to President Fels was this statement: "We are happy that through depressions as well as in periods of prosperity . . . we have been able to pay a bonus without interruption...