Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that its purpose is bad. It is that this Act will involve a cruel disappointment for those of our people least able to bear the shock of disappointment. . . . I will not promise the moon. I promise only what I know can be performed : Economy, a living pension, and such security as can be provided by a generous people...
...greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading hatred of the Rebels, "waving the bloody shirt" from every political stump as it packed Congress with its members, dictated pension legislation almost at will. It had already helped put fellow-members Grant, Hayes and Garfield into the White House, was still to put General Harrison and Major McKinley there...
...Noah Farnham Post in New York lost its charter for criticizing the organization's pension policies...
...American Legion's Willard Straight Post in New York lost its charter for a similar reason. Two years before, the Legion had reached the G. A. R.'s pension point of 1890, with payments extended to disabled veterans whose ailments were not War-connected. Last week Veterans' Administrator Frank T. Hines gently cautioned the Legionaries at Cleveland:"It is my advice that in the consideration of future proposals for the enactment of additional legislation beneficial to veterans and their dependents, due recognition be given to existing benefits and care exercised to avoid the possibility of claims...
Cried the American Veterans Association's Commander Donald A. Hobart of this long Legion step along the G.A.R. pension path: "The Cleveland convention . . . has definitely started the American Legion down the road to pensions for everyone...