Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defeated the Bursum Pension Bill, 28 to 53, when it was pressed for passage over the President's veto...
...next fiscal year, the effect of this act will be to take an addi tional $58,000,000 of the money paid ,by the taxpayers of the nation and add it to the pension checks of the veterans of the wars from 1812 to 1902 and their widows and depend ents...
...main objection to the whole bill is the unwarranted expendi- ture of the money of the taxpayers. It proposes to add more than 25% to the cost of the pension rolls. It is estimated that it would bring the total pension bill of the country to a point higher than ever before reached, not-withstanding it is now nearly 60 years since the close of the Civil War. A generous nation increased its pensions to well over a quarter of a billion annually, and has already bestowed nearly $6,250,000,000 in pensions upon the survivors of that...
...passage by the Argentine Congress of a law, forcing employers and employers to contribute 5% of salaries paid and received to a general pension fund, started a nation-wide strike...
Factories closed down, shipping was tied up, building operations were discontinued, restaurants and bakeries closed down, taxicabs and streetcars vanished from the streets of towns and cities, as the whole nation gave vent to its disapproval of the pension...