Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irenee and Pierre du Pont admitted to a Senate committee yesterday that a profit of six per cent, plus an occasional bonus "to speed up work and encourage invention," would be sufficient for munitions manufacturers in a forthcoming war. This is an eminently reasonable attitude. Six per cent on a billion or so will provide any little luxuries that the family may require, and an attempt to obtain more might encourage some unthinking persons to question the whole matter of private profit in wartime. Besides, the returns from the last international skirmish have probably left a small balance...
...Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly declared against the Bonus, for a balanced "normal" budget, with no new taxes next year; President Rudolf Hecht of the American Bankers' Association (see p. 53) who spoke enthusiastically of "co-operation between Government and business," said: "I told the President I didn't think it would be long before he had a touchdown...
...General Butler said he had captured in Haiti had never existed. After these highly embarrassing incidents, General Butler found it best to resign from the Marines in 1931 to devote himself to politics and public speaking as a private citizen. In 1932 he went to Washington to harangue the Bonus Army, was an unsuccessful candidate for Senator from Pennsylvania on a Dry ticket. Last December he exhorted veterans: 'If the Democrats take care of you, keep them in -if not, put 'em out." In May the current Butlerism was: "War Is A Racket." Last month he told...
...Scandinavia, Russia and Italy. Egypt, where Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo is an international landmark, benefited by Mediterranean cruises. Only country actually short of hotels is Greece. C. Liabratoulos told the sad-faced conference last week that his government would give a 20,000,000 drachma bonus (about $440,000) to the first promoter who would build a chain of modern hotels throughout that ancient land...
...Opposition likely to be heard in America for some time to come. It is the only bulwark against the evils inherent in a bureaucracy so unprecedented as that now being formed in Washington. It must take a firm stand on the issues that confront the next Congress: inflation, the bonus, restoration of pay-cuts, greatly increased taxation, and the all-important budget...