Word: gout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same bill over the protests of President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and General Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Theoretically the measure was still a compensation for War disability; practically it was a headlong plunge to pensions for veterans disabled in civil life. Under it a veteran stricken with gout on Dec. 31, 1929 would be compensated equally with a soldier who lost his legs in the first week of fighting. In the debate Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, an A. E. F. veteran who opposed the Bonus, boldly declared that he was ready now to shift the whole governmental...
...House into a lather of sentimental excitement about War veterans, got his proposal adopted by a vote of 324-49 after Mr. Johnson, outraged, asked that his name be removed from the measure. Congressman Wood pointed out that under this bill a veteran, hale and hearty, could contract gout on Dec. 31, 1929, blame it on the War eleven years before, collect, under the broad presumption clause, $225 per month as compensation. His prediction was that the House measure would add from 500 million to a billion dollars per year to the U. S. cost of veteran...