Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that the head "Bonus Bums" would be more appropriate than the B. E. F. that you use for your articles on the Bonus Expeditionary Force...
...make this suggestion because to millions of people B. E. F. has always stood for men who fought in the British Expeditionary Forces for 36? a day and a bonus (called blood money by them) of ?5 for the first year and ?1 for each subsequent year...
...Passed a bill reducing from 44% to 3% the interest rate on Bonus loans; sent it to the House...
...Adopted a resolution to lend War veterans now in Washington money to go home, deducting it from their final Bonus payments...
...effectively and originally Spotlight undertook its debunking program is indicated by the following features of the August issue: a cartoon showing Dry politicians stampeding for seats on a Wet bandwagon; a lengthy leading article about the Bonus Army's march to Washington, which occurred in June; an article by Congressman La Guardia telling why he fought the Sales Tax last April; a refutation of the theory that all bankers are all-wise; an estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert...