Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear to the hearts of all Congressmen are their perquisites. Among these are free postage on official letters, free stationery, free clerk hire and (for Senators only) free snuff and free mineral water. Although not really a member of Congress, the Vice President shares most of these, has one extra one of his own?an official automobile. But for 146 years there was one fat Congressional perquisite that no Vice President ever got?travel allowance. Last week Vice President Garner got that perquisite...
...provides that the Vice President shall have the right to draw, like any Congressman, an allowance of 20¢ a mile for traveling round-trip between his home and Washington for every session of Congress. Since Uvalde, Tex. is reckoned 2,128 miles from Washington, the allowance will put an extra $851.20 into the Garner pocket...
...without its consent, the resolution would withdraw "any consent which the U. S. may have given" to the assertion of any claim against the Government for payment in 100? dollars on any of its securities, coins or currencies. Besides closing the door to legal action, the resolution put an extra padlock on by providing that no money shall be disbursed from the Treasury to pay any such claims...
...McDowell was a devout Episcopalian. He preferred to operate on Sundays so that the prayers of the patient and friends would guide his knives, forceps and needles. For extra heavenly help during the death-defying operation on Mrs. Crawford, he waited for Christmas Day which that year fell on Sunday...
Less publicized than the Association's investigations are their results. Officials will say only that some investigations have been followed by reinstatements, some by payments to injured parties. Since 1931 A. A. U. P. has packed extra power behind its punches by blacklisting unrepentant offenders. First to go on the list were four of Mississippi's institutions of higher learning, after Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's spectacular purge of 179 presidents, deans, professors. When Bilbo's successor reinstated the purged pedagogs, Mississippi was returned to favor. Currently in academic Coventry are Harris Teachers College...