Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down with a band? No one could say nay to so unprecedented a patriotic gesture, but a number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station...
France's veterans, realizing the emergency, were considerably more tractable than the American Legion. They accepted the 3% pension cut, but at the same time the National Council of the Confederation of War Veterans served an ultimatum on the Government: The cut must be for one year only, beginning July 1. Before that time the Government must take definite action "toward repression of scandals, revision of the financial markets, repression of fiscal frauds, restoration and reorganization of credit, reorganization of the railways and reform of the State. . . . Otherwise the veterans will impose their own program of national renovation...
...salaries over 100,000 francs. Even 12,000-francers will lose 5% of their small wage. The Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees. By & large it was orderly, but in Paris 1,600 employes of the Central Telegraph office staged a brief protest strike...
Ever since then veterans and government employe lobbies have been busy trying to induce Congress to turn back the new leaf. Little by little, the President gave ground to forestall Congressional revolts. His regulations were liberalized and more & more veterans were permitted to remain on the pension rolls with the result that the first paper savings of $460,000,000 shrank to $300,000,000. But the President managed to preserve the principle of the Economy Act-to keep off pensions those veterans whose injuries & illnesses were "presumed" by old statutes to have been acquired in service if they...
...January under a "gag rule" the House passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill providing money for pensions and government salaries in the form the Administration wanted it. But the Senate, where no gag rule prevails, upset everything by voting back the Federal pay cuts and practically all the pension cuts. The House on a second go-round restored two-thirds of the Federal pay cut, and 75% of their former pensions to "presumptives." The bill as passed did not quite wipe out the savings of the 1933 Economy Act, but it did wipe out the principle of executive control...