Word: optionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman class will have complete possession of Symphony Hall tomorrow evening for the Boston Symphony "Pops" concert. They have been given an option on all the floor space of the hall, and all seats not sold to them will be thrown open to the public...
Nobody expected otherwise. The Bonus Bill was going to be passed, and it was passed. The House had passed the bill 355 to 54 (TIME, March 31). In the Senate there was a mere handful of opponents. Some Democrats stood out for a cash option instead of the paid-up insurance proposed. Such real fight as there was concerned this cash feature. The Battle. Senator Copeland of New York forced the issue-the cash payment alternative to the insurance bonus. The Democrats on the Finance Committee, in their minority report, recommended that a cash alternative tP the insurance be offered...
...opponents of the cash option declared simply that the immediate burden of paying cash would be ruinous to the Government finances...
There were several Senators who voted for the insurance bonus who were unwilling for that reason to vote for a plan with a cash option. When a roll call was taken on Senator Copeland's amendment to incorporate the cash option in the bill, the division followed in general party lines: 31 Democrats, 5 Republicans, 1 Farmer-Laborite, in favor; 36 Republicans, 11 Democrats, 1 Farmer-Laborite, opposed. Defeated...
...That insurance certificates should be issued after July 1, 1925 (instead of after Jan. 1, 1925). This provision was inserted by the Democrats, in hope that they may control the next Congress and incorporate a cash option in the law before it is carried...