Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anywhere else went the hero of the Mitchell case, Lawyer Max Steuer. It was he who had persuaded the jury that Banker Mitchell's "dummy" stock sales had been perfectly legitimate, that the $666,666.67 which Mr. Mitchell had received from National City Co. was no taxable bonus but a loan, that his client was a financial martyr, not a tax slacker who had tried to defraud the Government of some $850,000. Well content, smart Lawyer Steuer was to be found at his office at No. 11 Broadway, working on more routine cases...
...professorial sponsors was that of Robert Andrews Millikan, head of California Institute of Technology. At Oberlin's centennial commencement this Nobel prize winner extolled the Machine as the producer of wealth and leisure, flayed government paternalism for "weakening American self-reliance, discouraging private initiative, diminishing opportunity, stimulating bonus marchers and veterans' rackets." Warning against dictatorship Dr. Millikan cried...
...voted against the Bonus and I never cast a vote of which I was prouder. I had two boys in the front-line trenches, one of them being nearly killed. I had a nephew there who was gassed so badly that he will never recover. I had a sister in a hospital in France and two daughters in the hospitals here to relieve trained nurses. I would not want ever to speak to one of them again if they would join in the raid upon the Federal Treasury made by people who have never suffered any disability and thousands...
...keep the Civilian Conservation Corps on its toes President Roosevelt last week approved a bonus system for workers-in-the-woods. Instead of the regular $30 per month (two-thirds or more of which is sent home to dependents) the best 5% in each company are to get $45, the next 8%, $36. For misbehavior woodsters can be docked up to three days' pay per month...
...remove young women from jobs that men might hold, a Nazi bridal bonus is inaugurated. All newly married couples are granted a loan of 1,000 marks without interest, repayable at 1% of the principal monthly. Only conditions for the loan are that the bride must have been employed for six months before marriage, must quit the job and promise to take no other so long as her husband receives a minimum income of 125 marks ($34) monthly. All the money for the bridal bonus will come from a tax on the bachelors and spinsters of Germany...