Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal all Spanish War pension laws...
...years Congress has bowed fearfully before the most potent organized minority on record-the War Veterans. The lobbies of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars whipped through the Bonus (1924) and forced its part-payment (1931), both over Presidential vetoes. Spanish War pensions were upped and widened. The presumption date whereby veterans could legally attribute any ailment to World War service and thus draw full military compensation kept moving forward through the years. Finally a browbeaten Congress voted to compensate all veterans disabled in civil life, with pensions for all widows and orphans of all veterans...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...
Before Budget Director Douglas lies a hard anonymous job, one that will make him many enemies, no friends. Upon him rests the party pledge of cutting Federal expenses 25%. But he is a do-or-die budget balancer and, though himself a veteran, is committed to "purging the pension rolls," even to the extent of knocking out the $400,000,000 now paid for non-military disabilities. When it comes to Government spending, able "Lew" Douglas, with the President's backing, will issue crisp orders to the ten members of the Cabinet the theory: they will obey...
...President Matthew Lyle Spencer submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president of Olivet College (Mich.) for two years. Before that he was for eleven years president of the University of Washington, where it is still said that...