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...voted against: Tax reduction (1924), World Court (1920), Farm Board (1929), Muscle Shoals (1931), Beer (1932), Garner relief bill (1932), Wartime income taxes (1932), Bonus...
Bitter Boos. When the Hoover special drew into hungry Detroit a raucous, disrespectful din arose from 500 out-of-workers, Bonuseers, Communists and disgruntled citizens massed about the station. For 25 minutes the President stuck to the safety of his private car. When he finally emerged, he got a bitter booing. Before his eyes waggled placards: "We Want Bonus." "Down With Hoover." "Hoover-Boloney & Apple Sauce." During the 20-minute drive to the Olympic Arena he was jeered and derided by sidewalk throngs. Inside the hall he was among 20,000 friends yelling and stamping their welcome. On the platform...
...prostitute their patriotic services and to accept pay for having done their natural and fundamental duty, a large number have assumed the attitude that the government should be mulcted of as much money as possible. This last group fails to realize that the burden of the proposed immediate bonus payments and the load of the wasted millions falls directly on all the people in the shape of taxes, and particularly on this younger generation to which the Great War is only a dim reality. Congress has already permitted veterans to borrow on their bonus certificates a sum practically equal...
...that the pending Democratic raids on the Treasury would be defeated by a Republican victory in November would no doubt have the effect of reviving all kinds of business. An early and timely word from the Democratic candidate for President that he would reject the proposal to pay the Bonus would have been a great encouragement to business, reduced unemployment and guaranteed the integrity of the national credit. While he remained silent economic recovery was measurably impeded...
...sidetrip from Pittsburgh to Wheeling. Back in Pittsburgh Governor Roosevelt planned to make his long awaited Bonus speech. His managers predicted he would declare against immediate cash payment but propose as an alternative a system of local relief for needy veterans to be administered by the counterpart of Wartime draft boards...