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...that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow's meanest landlady got herself a cartwhip, cracked it ominously in the presence of her lodgers and screamed: "Comrade, unless you pay me the bonus I demand...
...Bonus Senator Robinson refused to dodge. The vital vote was not on the President's veto but, before that, on the choice between the Bonus-plain (on which a veto might not have been sustained) and the Bonus-with-greenbacks (on which a veto could be sustained). Leader Robinson and a little band of devoted Roosevelt followers grimly voted for what they least of all wanted-green-backs-so that the veto could be sustained...
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, packed away his 21 war medals until the Government pays the Soldier Bonus...
...lashed out at the Banking Bill, the Public Utility Bill, the Social Security Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill, the 30-hour-week Bill. "It is about time we had a little old-fashioned economy, that we encouraged efficiency and thrift," cried the steelmaster who received a $1,600,000 bonus...
Shoe Fruit. Conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and generous labor policy is George F. Johnson of Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes), who lately declared, "Any man who dies rich dies disgraced." (TIME, Jan. 7). By means of a liberal bonus, Shoeman Johnson shared profits with his 19,000 employes long before NRA came along. Many an envious competitor predicted that the good feeling between Endicott Johnson and its employes would end when President Johnson opposed the 30-hr. week. Last year after May Day, while Communists were parading dourly elsewhere, Mr. Johnson's workers cheered ecstatically at a gradually...