Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disruptions. More issues will doubtless be battled over than the President can today possibly anticipate. The Bonus, with a preferred place on the House calendar, may be the least of these, for its advocates are preparing to compromise on anything that will pass out money in plentiful quantities to make contented voters before election...
...Button & Co. has been publishing good books for 77 years. Grand Old Man of Button's is a white-whiskered Virginian named John Macrae, 68, president since 1923. A longtime Button custom has been to give employes a Christmas ''bonus'' of a new $10 bill. Last year Depression cut the bonus to $2.50, to the mental anguish of the three proud litterateurs who accept or reject Button books. Last week the three got together beforehand and resolved not to accept another $2.50 tip. When the cashier appeared with the envelope, each said with decision, "Thank...
When this was reported to President Macrae, his face froze behind his whiskers. He called to his office the proud three, Merton S. Yewdale, editor-in-chief for ten years, and his two associate editors, Louise T. Nicholl and Samuel Middlebrook, told them that their refusal of the Christmas bonus was evidence of dissatisfaction and disloyalty, told them to accept or resign. With one voice the three resigned...
...days after Congress meets on Jan. 3 the Patman bill is scheduled to be brought to the House floor. Similar preferential position awaits the Bonus in the Senate, as the result of an Administration deal with Bonuseers on the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week it was reported that the Legion and the VFW. having agreed to get behind a single bill with no mention of money-raising methods, had also won Representative Patman over to their view point. But no matter which way Bonuseer Patman twists, observers agreed that with elections only a few months distant a Bonus...
...players maneuvered stiffly in dinner jackets before a sparkling audience on tiers of blue & gold seats, longed vainly for spittoons and overhead counters. A preopening shot was more reminiscent of the squalling & brawling of the corner pool parlor. Titleholder Ponzi refused to play unless paid a $1,000 bonus, sought an injunction against the tournament's sponsors. When this was denied, he sulked in his own emporium...