Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-five onetime Saar residents, members of the French Foreign Legion who were brought all the way from Morocco to vote in the Saar plebiscite (TIME. Jan. 21). have not been seen since by their French officers. Came news last week that these 65 deserters each received a Nazi bonus of 5,000 marks ($200), have enlisted in the Fatherland's Reichswehr...
...Commander Britten, as commodore, goes a $500 annual bonus and the prized burgee, a red flag with two tails and a golden lion in the centre. He came very near missing both the bonus and the burgee. Last November when he reached the age of 60 he was supposed, like all Cunard skippers, to be retired on half-pay for three years, to be pensioned thereafter for life. In line for both bonus & burgee was the Mauretania's Captain Reginald V. Peel, who last week was transferred to the Olympic to succeed Captain John W. Binks, retired (TIME...
Compromise. Last week's A. P. poll, showing that at least 35 Senators would uphold a veto of a law for full payment of the bonus certificates, will mean little by the time a bonus bill comes to passage. For the Senators committed themselves against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill...
...urging that the engineer of the overtaking train be "drastically punished" (i. e. shot), the government newsorgan Izvestia conjectured that he had run past a stop signal to earn a bonus for being on time, added, "During 1934 there have been 63 proven instances of engineers passing closed semaphores on the Moscow-Leningrad line to earn such premiums...
When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...