Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nowhere amid this welter of revenue-raising did there appear in writing the promise which let the tax bill slip so easily through the Senate. That promise was an Administration bargain with Senate Bonuseers. Explaining that his sole purpose was to put Majority Leader Robinson on record, Oklahoma's Thomas last week moved to amend the tax bill with what was virtually the greenback Bonus bill. Senator Robinson at once gave his solemn word that the Bonus would get prompt consideration in a separate bill early next session. With that promise in their pockets. Bonuseers could count...
...President Hoover had shipped the Bonus Army of 1932 off to pleasant camps to play, putter and carouse at Government expense, the nation's Press would almost certainly have been more indignant than it was at his action in driving the luckless veterans out of Washington with tear gas and bayonets. If the conscientious New York Times had not last fortnight dispatched a man to investigate and report, the quiet but costly fashion in which President Roosevelt dissipated the threat of another Bonus Army would probably have escaped ail public notice...
...Senate by recessing instead of adjourning refused to tear off the top sheet of its pad, and the legislative day went gaily on. The Senate passed the Labor Relations Bill, gave NRA a shadow-lease on life, approved the TVAmendments, upheld the President's Bonus veto, heard Huey Long through a record one-man filibuster, extended nuisance taxes, passed the Social Security Bill, took a long week-end off over July 4, and adopted the AAAmendments-all in one day's work. Last week it was still May 13 in the Senate when that body passed the Banking...
...your cheesy newspaper has ever printed. Now get out of here and shut up." Since this is the way newspaper reporters customarily speak to their editors in the cinema, audiences at The Murder Man will not be surprised to learn that instead of being fired Steve Grey gets a bonus. Of more consequence is the probability that they will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial...
...sign of devotion to the Roman Republic. But readers may feel, on the strength of Dr. Richards' account, that Cicero simply could not make up his mind where he stood in the issue of democracy v. dictatorship. He had a yes-and-no policy on the soldiers' bonus, a yes-and-no attitude toward Caesar, who wanted to change the constitution. He left the uncomfortable middle ground to denounce Catiline, in one of the greatest pieces of invective known to history, but Catiline's crimes were great: he planned to burn Rome, abolish debt and share...