Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schooner Amberjack II to his mother's summer home in New Brunswick and a speedy run down to the Virginia Capes on the cruiser Indianapolis. All week long President Roosevelt poked, pressed and prodded Congress towards adjourning Saturday night. To placate the House he gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command...
...Accepted (243-to-154) a White House compromise on pension cuts in the Independent Offices Appropriation bill...
Much Congressional shoe leather was worn out over the White House doorstep last week before President Roosevelt and the House could compose their differences over reduction of pensions for disabled veterans. Day after day Democratic Representatives traipsed down from the Capitol, spent long hot hours dickering and bickering with the President. What they and their colleagues wanted, what the President flatly refused to let them have, was a Senate amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation bill which would have limited the President's cutting power to 25% of the old payments and kept on the pension rolls not only...
...Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Byrns, half a dozen important House Democrats. For three hours he gave them a heart-to-heart. Director of the Budget Douglas had advised him to veto the whole appropriation bill, take the economy issue to the country by radio if Congress insisted upon a pension boost. The President did not want to do that if he could help it. BUT THE BUDGET MUST BE BALANCED, he told his House visitors, and if Congress wanted to add $170,000,000 to veterans' cost. Congress could find $170,000,000 worth of new taxes to foot...
Speaker Rainey & friends marched out of the White House looking glum and worried. The President had not succeeded in definitely killing the pension boost but he had made it seem much less attractive politically to the House leaders...