Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt shaved and put on a clean white shirt (but no tie) to receive his other Gloucester callers-Col. Edward Mandell House, who summers nearby, and Director of the Budget Douglas to talk about pension cuts. Then the Amberjack II put-putted through the Annisquam Canal to miss rough water off Cape Ann and sailed on to Little Harbor, N. H. for the night. There next morning 15-month-old Granddaughter Sara Delano Roosevelt spent a few minutes in the President's arm, expressed delight with the Amberjack II's glittering brass work...
...gold camp. Their first goal was famed Mclntyre-Porcupine mine, Mr. Bickell's prize performer (which produced $5,425,000 of gold last year). There they met Sandy Mclntyre, onetime glass-molder, later foreman of a railroad construction gang, who discovered the mine and now lives on a pension (doled out in small amounts so that he will not disappear for too long at a time). There they went down into the bowels (4,134 ft.) of the earth to see the quartz gold vein being hacked. From Porcupine they planned to go to Kirkland Lake and Noranda mines...
Week before President Roosevelt and the House had reached a compromise on pensions (TIME, June 19). Pension cuts were to be limited to 25%. "Presumptive" disability cases, in which a veteran claimed his post-War injuries were due to military service, were to be reviewed by the President. In the Senate long windy efforts to upset this compromise were finally voted down 45-to-36. President Roosevelt was master of Congress until...
...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...
...presiding officer's gavel put an end to that wrangle. Further debate culminated in a vote on the pension bill. Meantime, the seeds of a new discussion had been planted in the minds of Senators Cutting and Glass. Just before adjournment was voted, the little Virginian rose once more...