Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repealing the pension patchwork of years, the Economy Act permitted the President to divide the wartime sheep from the peacetime goats and pension those with real claims on the U. S. Likewise he was free to hack all civil and military salaries 15%. Next step: issuance of executive orders establishing new pension groups and putting cuts into effect...
...important legislation. His smiling facility charmed even rabid Republicans. In a dozen days 14,000 laudatory telegrams swamped the White House. Catching the temper of the times the national commander of the American Legion tried to swing its 10,709 posts behind the President the instant Congress authorized pension cuts...
...first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents and I'm too old to go back...
What a House & Senate majority could or would not do in the way of specific pension reform President Roosevelt was now ready to undertake if given full power. Gladly would he become the "whipping boy" (his word) for the veterans, thus letting timid members of Congress pass the blame to the White House. His proposal amounted to sweeping the whole patchwork pension system aside and starting afresh on a merit basis. Those with real War hurts would be fully cared for-but not malingerers. If a veteran was so permanently and totally disabled in civil life as to become...
...President's economy bill reached the Capitol before the veterans' lobbies could get into action. House Democrats promptly caucused, with their leaders bent on pledging their huge majority solidly for the measure. But, as always, pensions spawned mutiny. Tennessee's hulking Browning, A. E. F. field artillery captain, induced the caucus to adopt an amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill...