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Evalyn refused to be subdued. She had chosen a reckless way of life, and she pursued it with persistent hardihood. She was constantly moved to outbursts of wild generosity. When the straggling Bonus Army of World War I veterans marched on Washington in 1932, she fed them, bought them cigarets, provided a circus tent to house them...
...Rifle. Half the people of the Northwest Territories are Eskimos, and their tribal ways have been difficult to fit to Canada's 20th Century social legislation. Exhibit A is the baby bonus. On Feb. 28, no less than 3,101 Eskimo children were registered for family allowances made available on July 1, 1945. But administration is difficult. In the first place, an Eskimo child has only a temporary name until he is about ten years old. In addition, families are always on the move. The Mounties have tried to solve the problem by giving each child...
...payment of the bonus, Dewey had an equally Spartan prescription. He wanted it paid off in ten years by means of an additional 1? tax on cigarets, a 20% increase in present income taxes. Democrats, who wanted business to pay the tab, wailed that veterans would be paying for their own bonus. Tom Dewey didn't say they wouldn't. But if the people wanted to vote a bonus, Dewey meant to see that they knew what it would cost...
With one week of play left, the teams in the National Hockey League ranked, roughly, in the order of their distance from the North Pole: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...
Last week, letters about pinups all but crowded the bonus out of the weekly's Gripevine. Since none supported Mrs. Bridges, Army Times decided to let the pinups stay. Wrote one reader: "Maybe God does provide us with clothes to wear, but if I remember, it was the Devil who taught us to wear them...