Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifty thousand tomes appended, Telling just how it can be ended. To Congressmen who'll draw our salary, We leave all gunmen in the gallery, All Communists who march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying, A tax the public won't mind paying. To make this simple...
...Like Stealing." Echoing the Republican arguments of 1896 against Bryanism, Pennsylvania's Senator Reed bitterly flayed the Wheeler silver amendment: "It would be giving a great cash bonus to India and perhaps China. . . . Panic and crisis would be precipitated. . . . We'd see a flight of capital that would take our breath away. . . . There would be such a catastrophic overturn of American business that all the benefits would be obviated. . . . It's like stealing from one class to help another. ... I don't believe that the people of the United States have gone dishonest overnight because...
...heading straight for the rocks now. . . . There isn't enough rice grown in this country to supply a first class wedding. . . . The lamp of experience is before us. . . . God help the farmer! . . . Nobody here knows what this bill's all about. . . . It's a gigantic bonus at the expense of the consuming public. . . . The time for panaceas is past. . . . If a copy of this bill should reach Mr. Stalin in the far-off Kremlin he would be inspired with a passing feeling of professional jealousy...
...most operas just as pitchers are the heroes of ball games. Baritones, like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields, combined to make him the most popularly known singer in the U. S. He was given increasingly important roles at the Metropolitan: Amonasro in Aida, Telramund in Lohengrin, Wolfram in Tannhauser, King Eadgar in The King...
...voted for: War (1917), 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Jones Act (1929), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Tax Reduction (1924, 1929), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Tariff (1930), Muscle Shoals (1931), Direct Jobless Relief (1932), Anti-injunction Labor Bill...