Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922); Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
...Washington took the Sacramento meeting with comparative equanimity. Of vastly greater concern to it was the national convention next week at Portland, Ore. of V. F. W.'s big young brother, the American Legion. Would the Legion, with its 936,000 members, also plump for immediate payment of the Bonus? It seemed certain to do so. Would wrathful legionaries also succeed in having the convention censure President Hoover for his treatment of the B. E. F? It seemed likely. The prospect sent cold chills up & down the spines of the Republican high command...
...thereafter. Banker Hanford MacNider, commander in 1921, was made an Assistant Secretary of War. Later he was made Minister to Canada. Last week he resigned that job to return to the U. S. for the Republican campaign. His chief job will be to persuade the Legion that cashing the Bonus now would imperil the national credit...
...Bursting Bonus. Aside from the election of his successor, Commander Stevens seems destined to preside over wild and stormy sessions. For two years the Bonus issue has been vigorously suppressed at the Legion's national conventions. At Boston in 1930 a cash payment resolution was strangled in committee. Later when the Veterans of Foreign Wars began to make spectacular headway with their Bonus drive in Congress, the Legion's na tional executive committee at Indianapolis climbed on the legislative bandwagon, declared for the 50% loan plan. At Detroit in 1931 the Legion was all primed to ap prove full cash...
...Bonus. If states paid $50 a month to parents of good heredity when their third child reaches its fifth birthday, and $10 or more a month for each additional child. Such bonuses would give eugenists a powerful economic advocate for their cause. ?Dr. Renato Kehl of Rio de Janeiro. He also advocated high inheritance taxes for families of few children, large reductions for big families...