Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Hoover moratorium (1931), Muscle Shoals (1931-33), RFC (1952), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1933), Economy Act (1933;), 16-to-1 silver (1933), AAA (1933), NIRA (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), stock exchange regulation...
...voted against: Boulder Dam (1928), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus...
Died. Charles Spalding Thomas, 84, silver money advocate, onetime (1899-1901) Governor of Colorado, onetime (1913-21) U. S. Senator; after a six-month illness; in Denver. Strongly individualistic, he opposed closed shops, payment of the Soldiers' Bonus, fought hard for the 16-to-1 silver-gold ratio. Last year he announced he was hoarding $120 in gold, tried unsuccessfully to be brought to trial...
...clear up back dividends and meet the Illinois law, Mr. Lee proposed to exchange one share of new $6 preferred for each share of old $7 preferred, throwing in two shares of new common as a bonus to help stockholders forget back dividends. Mr. Lee also sweetened his new preferred by making it convertible into six shares of common. Old Class A stockholders would get new common, share for share, and each share of Class B would be exchanged for one-half a share of new common. By assigning the new common a par value of only...
...Muscle Shoals lobbying scandal compelled the G. O. P. to oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took the job. His ardent Dry leanings proved a party liability in the 1930 Congressional elections. He resigned in 1932. In the Senate he has voted for: the Bonus (1924), tax reduction (1929), Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), moratorium on War debts (1931), RFC (1931), Economy Act (1933), overriding the Roosevelt veto on veterans' compensation (1934), St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty (1934). He voted against: Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931. 1933), direct Federal relief for unemployed (1932, 1933), Repeal...