Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economy Act decreed a cut in veterans' benefits, and temperate Louis Johnson saved the President from insult when he appeared at the Legion convention in Chicago. In 1936, still alive to the main chance, Louis Johnson organized the Veterans' Division of the Democratic National Committee, got his reward within the twelvemonth...
...reward for the most recent killing of the Lamp Post, and its payment was proof enough to skeptical Brazilians that this time the Government believed him dead. The six heads were the grisly gift from the remaining members of the Lamp Post's gang, and belonged to inhabitants of a remote interior settlement who were massacred and decapitated in retaliation for the Lamp Post's death. One head was that of the aged grandfather of an Alagoas police lieutenant who led the attack on the bandit chief...
...Consul Zarza pinned a blue-ribboned gold medal upon Major Rowan. It was the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuba's highest honor.* The old soldier, suffering from age's infirmities and a rib broken last April, received his reward in silence...
...Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good boy and wait; his reward would come. But Happy said: "The time to run is when you're in office." He went ahead full steam...
...Sorrowful Mother, with special Stations of the Cross and prayers of his own compilation. Last winter Father Keane's novena began getting publicity when 16,500 people attended it every Friday, each making nine devotions in succession to the Virgin, in hope of spiritual or material reward (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week, 50,000 Catholics were thronging the church on Fridays and novenas were being installed in churches throughout the U. S. as fast as the Servites-whose permission, willingly granted, had to be asked before a church could adopt the ritual-were able to get around...