Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first step was to gentle it with the moderate words of his Congressional message (see p. 12). He also let it have a little sugar when his Congressional leaders promised restive Representatives that they should have a chance to vote on prepayment of the Bonus. For three days he put off throwing his 1936 budget message over the Congressional back and cinching it up under the Congressional belly...
...Union, the hearts of his Secret Service men missed a beat. A man in the crowd close to the car gave an ominous shout. Without waiting to hear what it was they seized and pinioned him, marched him away. All he had shouted was "We want the Bonus!" Police later established that his name was John Alferi, that he was a 47-year-old war veteran from Los Angeles, that he had a pass to the Senate gallery signed by Huey Long. Released, he returned to the Capitol to tell reporters: "I think Roosevelt is a good guy. I didn...
...years the new rule served. It was used to bring about the first vote on Prohibition, two votes on prepayment of the Bonus. Last summer Democrats began to rue their rule, under which the Republican minority combining with a few recalcitrant Democrats could seriously discomfit the Administration by exhuming many an unpleasant legislative monster from its committee grave. Many a poor Congressman who had made promises to his constituents felt he had to sign petitions for bills whose passage he did not in the least want...
...comfortable security of the old gag rule which required a majority to disrupt. Speaker Byrns had the job of getting the change approved by the Democratic caucus. He might have had difficulty had he not offered a concession: the House leadership would allow a vote on the Bonus early in the session. No more persuasion was needed. The caucus plumped 225 to 60 for Gag Rule. Next day it was put to a vote in the House. The Republicans who had so long defended Gag Rule as an honorable mechanism of party government voted 88 to 11 against...
Upon his appointment as Director of the Budget in February, 1933 he became a leading figure in the new deal. Credit for the Economy Bill and the cuts in bonus payments has been attributed to him. As the succeeding months brought tremendous increases in government expenditures, however, the gulf between the beliefs of Roosevelt and his close adviser was uncovered...