Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naturally when I suggested to you that I could not approve the bill for the payment of the bonus certificates I did not mean that I might let it become law without my signature...
While Senators were thus contesting with the President the question of who should be generous, Representatives were likewise seeking credit for generosity. First house bill introduced in the current congress was Texas' Wright Patman's perennial measure to pay the soldiers' bonus in cash at once. This form of generosity involved $2,400,000,000, not from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing...
...reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned with the announcement: "I am authorized by the President to say this is not the time to pay the bonus and he cannot approve any legislation to that effect...
...bonus boosters were not long celebrating their victory. With the petition completed, the House under its rules would shortly be forced to a record vote on the issue. Many a Representative was thus put in a tight hole. If he voted for the bill he could be accused of greenbackery. If he voted against it, veterans would never forgive him. About the House Chamber circulated pitiful pleas that the Administration help its friends out of their predicament by getting the Ways & Means committee to report the bill unfavorably before the petition becomes effective, a piece of parliamentary hocus-pocus that...
...thought the Bonus Boys and the Anti-Saloon League had good lobbies at the Capital. But their purposes and methods become incidental chicanery compared to the organized crime perpetrated by the retail drug concerns and their gag rule over the American press. When young girls are going blind from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias...