Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol for the midnight adjournment of Congress. He had ten days in which to sign bills and that could be done just as well in the White House Office as in the President's Room off the Senate lobby under the "Eye of God." Besides, Bonus-seeking veterans were making a ruction out on Pennsylvania Avenue which required police attention. The White House motor under the portico was dismissed and the President spent the evening indoors...
...Adopted a conference report on a House bill to reduce the interest rate on Bonus loans from 4½% to 3½% and to permit veterans to borrow half the face value of their certificates without waiting the prescribed two years after issuance; sent it to the President...
...Senate killed immediate cashing of the Soldier Bonus...
...Capitol plaza was No Man's Land last week. Some 700 ragged, hungry veterans arrived from the Pacific Coast to join the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to besiege Congress for immediate cashing of their adjusted service certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage...
...House & Senate acted promptly. Each Veteran was to be advanced the price of a cut-rate railroad ticket, allowed 75? per day for food during the journey. No gift, the advance was in each case to be deducted from the final payment of the Veteran's bonus certificate. The offer was good only until July 15. The first day some 600 discouraged Veterans took advantage of the chance to ride home, applied for Government largesse. Perhaps a break-up of the B. E. F. was at hand...