Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flashes in the Man-of-the-Year pan: Walter Waters, commander-in-chief of the Bonus Expeditionary Force and Milo
...Received from West Virginia's Bachmann a bill permitting veterans to sell their Bonus certificates, providing the purchaser first paid the Government its outstanding loan...
Because several news stories of the year loomed so large, the lists were more alike than usual. All three services named the Bonus Army's invasion of Washington, the Democratic landslide, the Sino-Japanese struggle (particularly the battle of Shang-hai), the collapse of the Insull and Kreuger properties, the Massie case in Honolulu...
...annual meeting in Manhattan, stockholders learned that in the last two years $2,670,939 had been paid to a partnership composed of Irving Grant Thalberg, Louis B. Mayer and J. Robert Rubin, dominant officers in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's producing subsidiary, not as a bonus but as their share of the profits under a contract signed when M-G-M was born of a three-cornered merger. Mr. Mayer and his two partners had turned over all their assets-properties, stars, contracts, furniture, cash-taking no stock in exchange but a 20% interest...
...concessions in the Stadium this fall, it was announced yesterday by R. T. Sharpe '28, secretary for student employment. It is usually planned to pay the stand workers $4 a week and the captains of each stand $6, but this year the concessions were so profitable that a bonus of 21 percent of his total salary was paid to each man in addition to his regular wages...