Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt signed his Economy Bill last March and decreed drastic reductions in the pension rolls, he was one long lap ahead of the veterans' lobby. By last week the veterans' lobby had not only caught up with him but was rapidly undoing his Budget savings. At its prodding the Senate had openly revolted against the President and Speaker Rainey was predicting that the House could no longer be held in line...
Under the Economy Act, President Roosevelt set up a new military pension system, effective July 1, which was to cut veterans' expenditures almost in half-a clear saving of $460,000,000 per year and the keystone of his Budget balancing program. This economy was to be accomplished by: 1) confining null null pensions to those actually hurt in military service before Nov. 11, 1918; 2) reducing their allowances sharply after reclassifying their injuries; 3) striking from the rolls all Spanish War veterans under 62 who could not show service-connected disabilities. Principal losers of pensions were veterans partly...
...supplied, however, was money to put these new pension ratings into effect. Last month an obedient House passed the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, carrying $493,000,000 for vet- erans-just the figure the President wanted. Last week when the measure came up in the Senate, the veterans' storm broke. Before it cleared, the Senate had set the President's economy program back by nearly...
...very morning had hobbled into his office to protest a cut in his disability compensation from $100 to $40. Michigan's Vandenberg told of a veteran suffering with gunshot wounds in the back, hernia, arthritis and chronic nervousness who was about to lose $82 of his $90 monthly pension. "That means," cried Senator Vandenberg, "he'll get shot in the back a second time-this time by the Govern-ment." The chamber rang with protests against "the horrors of this new deal . . . its unspeakable cruelties . . . its indefensible hardships." Vainly did the President's spokesmen promise that...
Upshot was the Senate's adoption of an amendment to the supply bill which prevented the President from cutting by more than 25% the pension of any veteran on the rolls March 15, 1933 with a service-connected disability. The vote was a tie (42-10-42) which Vice President Garner broke in favor of the veterans for fear the White House would be given a worse drubbing by alternative proposals. The Veterans' Administration figured that this change would add about $156,000,000 to pension costs. It would not only reduce economies on battle-scarred veterans...