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...raised to balance the Budget. Upon him fell the unpopular responsibility of drafting a billion-dollar revenue bill and pushing it through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction (1924, 1927), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Bonus loans (1931), "Lame Duck" Amendment, (1931, 1932), Philippine Independence (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Federal employes paycut (1932), Unemployment Relief Bill (1932). He voted against: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1921), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), State option on liquor (1932), Wartime income taxes (1932), full Bonus cashing...
...fire warmed the President & guests at his Rapidan camp over the weekend. He rested from the nervous tension incident to calling out the Army to evacuate the Bonus Expeditionary Force (see col. 2). The highway from Washington was scoured by Virginia troopers in flashing white cars to see that the President was not accosted or molested by straggling Bonus marchers...
...where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital he was billeted in a Government-owned building on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of thousands, he took part in the demonstration at the Capitol the day Congress adjourned without voting immediate cashing of the Bonus...
Last week William Hushka's Bonus for $528 suddenly became payable in full when a police bullet drilled him dead in the worst public disorder the capital has known in years...
Most conspicuous Roman Catholic priests in the U. S. are Father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, whom William Henry Cardinal O'Connell of Boston flayed last spring for "demagogic talk" over the radio in behalf of cashing the Bonus; and Father James R. Cox of Pittsburgh, who invaded Washington with a jobless "army" last winter (TIME, Jan. 18) and is candidate for President of the U. S. on a "Liberty" or "Jobless" party ticket. Father Cox talks loudly of taking over all U. S. wealth, all U. S. banks, providing public works to end unemployment. "Either...