Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: I notice in your issue of March 5 an item with reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew...
...savings which the President made a year ago under the Economy Act. The President let the House know that he would veto the bill if it accepted the Senate amendments. Only a few days earlier the House had defied the threat of a veto in passing the greenback bonus bill. That, however, was only a political gesture for home consumption since no one expected the bonus bill to become law. Last week in what was not a gesture but a deliberate affront to the White House, the House voted 247 to 169 against a rule which, in effect, would have...
...Bonus Democrats Could Be Added...
There are a number of matters like the tariff, for instance, which will require a difference with the administration. Thus to Speaker Rainey's list of 21 who voted "wrong" there now might be added by the same logic about 90 Democrats who voted for the bonus, though it is not certain yet how many of these will vote to override a veto...
...employer wants to give his employees a price below the current market quotations in selling the company's own stock or if it is desired to give a bonus to deserving employees, can such a "favor" be given without running the risk of prosecution under proposed...