Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soldier Bonus...
...Deservedness. "Contrast the $30 per month received by the soldiers during the War with what those at home made during that period. . . . The lad who was fighting in your behalf for $30 a month; out of the $30 a month from many of them $15 were taken as an allotment for relatives, and $6 a month to pay insurance, so that out of $30 a month the soldier had left in many, many instances, an average of $9 a month, or 30?...
...Soldier Bonus. Mellon Plan: none. Democratic Plan: not mentioned. Insurgent Plan: a bonus to be paid for at the rate of $200,000,000 a year...
...Herbert Merton Jessel was made a baron. He served in the Ministry of Supply during the War and can be termed a soldier-politician, having joined the 17th Lancers, one of Britain's crack regiments, when 20 years of age. Aged 57, he has been an M.P. several times. It was he who carried the Old Age Pensions Act through the House of Commons...
...naturally does not hurry preparations when conditions are against the enemy. That is what is happening now. All things are against the rebels. . . . My wife said that I would surely die if I took the field. My answer was that I would sooner die on the field as a soldier than be caught in bed. Really, this revolt has improved my health. The change from civilian clothes to my old military uniform seems to have acted as a tonic. I am feeling much better than for many months...