Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wagner Labor Act last spring stamped him as at least temporarily a liberal, belong to neither of the Court's well defined sides. Both are closer to the liberals than to their hard-shelled conservative colleagues with whom they were aligned in this week's employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as eloquent as the one he read this week, by no means reveals Associate Justice Hugo Black's exact philosophical locality. Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime dean of Columbia...
...that year Herbert Hoover found his Treasury in the red by about $900,000,000. In the following four years the annual deficits ran consistently above three billions, then hit a peak of $4,700.000,000 in fiscal 1936 (year of the Soldiers' Bonus), dropped to $2,707,000,000 in fiscal 1937. Relatively small though the new figure for fiscal 1938 appears, it will be the eighth consecutive deficit-with government revenues only a shade short of the alltime high ($6,695,000,000 in booming 1920 when Wartime taxes were still in effect...
...examining the mud slung (TIME, Sept. 13), the Senate upheld Professor van Zeeland 121-to-6 and the Chamber, vindicating him 130-to-34, hailed his "integrity and disinterestedness." In agreeing that van Zeeland had a perfect right to receive $11,250 from the Bank of Belgium as a "bonus" for work he did before becoming Premier, Belgium's legislators sharply indicated that the Bank's statutes must be changed to make such bonuses impossible hereafter. Alone were Rexist newsorgans in screaming that in freely testifying he had received $11,250 the Premier had made an "AVOWAL...
...wants peace, its chief reason for existence, like that of all veteran organizations, is to pump cash from the U. S. Treasury. A politically efficient organization with some 300,000 members, it teamed with the bigger Legion (membership: 1,000,000) to get the Bonus passed. And no one who knows the history of the Grand Army of the Republic, encamped last week in Madison, Wis. with only 200 oldsters to answer the roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign opened with instructions for its able...
...march of bonus-seeking veterans on Washington ended in an ill-tempered whiff of tear gas that embarrassed the Army's orderly Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, retired. Last week another indigent siege of the Capital, by 2,500 jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want...