Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States, who is such an honor to his country and glory to civilization, has fallen into error. . . . We cannot expect the President of the United States, merely because he holds the office, always to be accurate. Of him, too, if I recall the Latin, it may be said, Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. Or, as our Senators schooled in the classics would translate-Sometimes even good Homer himself nods...
...appropriation for "county loan agencies." More realistically, Minority Leader Bertrand Snell demanded restoration of the 15% pay cut in Federal salaries. And an echo of Hoover times sounded when Minnesota's Lundeen filed a petition to force a vote on a bill to pay the Bonus in full...
...Congress, in 1927 to the Senate. Being dignified, well dressed (at least when in Washington), sincere in his convictions, not given to offending men in speech, he made few enemies.† Chief impression of Thomas in the Senate was his work for an oil tariff and for a soldier Bonus. By the latter he was introduced to his big issue, for 1) he planned to finance the Bonus with greenbacks, and 2) two years ago at a hearing on the Bonus bill he met and made friends with George LeBlanc-French Canadian by birth, Manhattan banker by training, and inflationist...
...were "champion mothers," the pride of Italy, with an average of 14 living children apiece-a total approximating that of an Italian infantry regiment. To each mother Il Duce gave a fat money prize, though three were women of wealth. They had already received the Government's regular bonus of 500 lire for every child born after the seventh...
Since the concessions were exceptionally profitable this year, the stand which did the most business each week was awarded a prize of from $2 to $5; and every man received a bonus amounting to 47 per cent of his salary. Last year's bonus was only 21 per cent...