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...bill came from the American Legion. It was nicknamed the "G.I. Bill of Rights," as it combined in a single measure most of the proposals for helping veterans that have been made in Congress, except mustering-out pay (already voted) and the inevitable bonus. (A pending bill, backed by five other veterans' organizations, would give each World War II veteran a bonus of up to $4,500.) Prime provisions...
...Veterans of Foreign Wars were no less busy. V.F.W. Lobbyist Omar B. Ketchum advised against putting mustering-out pay too high. Said he: after all, its purpose is only to tide a man over until he gets a job. A further reason: it might block passage of a bonus bill. Twice he appeared before Congressional committees advocating a veterans' bonus like the last...
...Sergeant Lemuel Hendricks of Council Bluffs, Iowa, whose left leg was blown off by a land mine in Tunisia. Veteran Hendricks told worried Congressmen a few things: soldiers are concerned about their future and "what Congress is doing for them"; unless they are cared for, there will be another bonus march. Leaning on his cane, Veteran Hendricks spoke with emphasis: "The men in the foxholes are beginning to wonder what they are fighting...
Last week James Lincoln backed his pet economic theory with a smacking $3,000,000 annual bonus that will give every Lincoln employe, on the average, about as much as he has already drawn for the year (average per worker: $2,250). This will also add up to $50,000 on the paychecks of a few key men. In so doing, James Lincoln told both the Navy and the Treasury to go to hell, in those exact one-syllable words...
...estimates the total Government saving on his kind of goods at $100,000,000. (This includes the fact that his competitors' prices have been forced down to meet his.) Trouble is that Lincoln makes too much money himself in the course of rewarding his employes: he takes no bonus, but he and his brother own 75% of the company's stock...