Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week before President Roosevelt and the House had reached a compromise on pensions (TIME, June 19). Pension cuts were to be limited to 25%. "Presumptive" disability cases, in which a veteran claimed his post-War injuries were due to military service, were to be reviewed by the President. In the Senate long windy efforts to upset this compromise were finally voted down 45-to-36. President Roosevelt was master of Congress until...
Much Congressional shoe leather was worn out over the White House doorstep last week before President Roosevelt and the House could compose their differences over reduction of pensions for disabled veterans. Day after day Democratic Representatives traipsed down from the Capitol, spent long hot hours dickering and bickering with the President. What they and their colleagues wanted, what the President flatly refused to let them have, was a Senate amendment to the Independent Offices Appropriation bill which would have limited the President's cutting power to 25% of the old payments and kept on the pension rolls not only...
...important delegate whom the U. S. did not see was roly-poly Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. A veteran of most world conferences since 1921, he has an annoying habit of puncturing the complacency of European statesmen by attacking the empty phrases they use to veil their lack of accomplishment, knowing well that every sally at the expense of the bourgeois world brings him salvos of applause from Moscow. Not one peep came from M. Litvinov last week. Observers believed he would work hard and say little for many days to come. Theoretically a world economic conference should mean nothing...
Senator after Senator leaped to his feet to describe how the President's decree caused suffering and destitution among disabled veterans. West Virginia's Hatfield, a physician, produced an x-ray picture of a man whose thigh had been shot away and whose spine was full of shrapnel splinters. "A hopeless cripple," pronounced Dr. Hatfield, "and his allowance is to be cut from $120 to $80 per month." Pennsylvania's Reed told of a veteran with one leg shot off in battle who that very morning had hobbled into his office to protest...
Upshot was the Senate's adoption of an amendment to the supply bill which prevented the President from cutting by more than 25% the pension of any veteran on the rolls March 15, 1933 with a service-connected disability. The vote was a tie (42-10-42) which Vice President Garner broke in favor of the veterans for fear the White House would be given a worse drubbing by alternative proposals. The Veterans' Administration figured that this change would add about $156,000,000 to pension costs. It would not only reduce economies on battle-scarred veterans...