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...voted against: Democratic Tariff bills (1932, 1934), Wartime Income Tax rates (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Sales Tax (1932), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1932), 30-Hour Week (1933), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), NIRA (1933), AAA (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), Stock Exchange Control (1934), Silver Amendment (1954), Confirming Dr. Tugwell...
...Florida city by train and automobile last week for their 16th annual convention. One-&-all were in a peppery mood. Not only were the Legionaries smarting under President Roosevelt's Roanoke speech week before, in which he urged the organization to cease agitating prepayment of the Bonus and give the nation's destitute first call on the nation's coffers (TIME. Oct. 29), but many of them had just awakened to the fact that even when adjusted service certificates come legally due in 1945 few veterans will get anywhere near as much as they expect...
...Bonus Act of 1924, the Government assumed obligations to War veterans which now amount to $3,486,000,000 worth of endowment policies payable in full in 20 years. Over President Hoover's veto in 1931, the veterans won the right to borrow up to 50% of the face value of their policies-at 3½% interest per annum. Only 15% of the veterans failed to take advantage of the offer and some $1,689,915,531 was paid out to them as "loans." The Government has made no serious effort to spur beneficiaries into paying their interest, much...
...clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then to France in 1917, did not take off his uniform until 1919. Now 44, he is identified with the anti-Bonus American Veterans Association, is a partner in the Washington firm of Underwood & Kilpatrick, is currently engaged in practice before the German Mixed Claims Commission...
...Dizzy Dean and his brother Paul ("Daffy") announced that they would demand that their salaries ($7,500 and $3,500 respectively) be raised next year. In Detroit last week the employers who last year bought him for $100,000 from Philadelphia, paid Manager Cochrane a $10,000 bonus...