Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldier Bonus. Last important omission from the President's legislative program was the bill for paying the veterans' bonus in greenbacks. The President had promised to veto it if passed. So last week the House took him at his word and in boisterous session passed (295-10-125) the bill, 231 Democrats deserting the Administration. All of which made no difference to the President since the bill could not. he was confident, be passed over his veto, must therefore die on the chessboard when Congress adjourned...
...sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term, get an honorable discharge and thus qualify for war-risk insurance and the Bonus. He re-enlisted in March 1922 at Camp Dix. On Sept. 1 Private McHam deserted...
...last March. Highest straight salary for 1932 was $250,000, paid to Charles M. Schwab as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper got $249,232 in 1932, against $345,000 in 1929. Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel got a $1,600,000 bonus in 1929 but his $12,000 salary had been upped to $180,000 for 1932. That year George Washington Hill was paid a $120,000 salary and a $705,607 bonus, against salary & bonus of $605,613 in 1929. Another notable bonus increase was Thomas John Watson...
...first time the U. S. public learned what the editor of its biggest magazine was paid. The salary of Sateve-post's George Horace Lorimer was reduced from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than...
Other salaries: (B =bonus included...