Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from its Finance Committee, which had voted down the Patman (greenback) and Vinson (Legion) bonus bills, the Harrison (compromise) bonus bill (TIME, April...
...most fundamental human emotions are convincingly portrayed against the solid background of good Connecticut farm soil in "The Wedding Night." Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Helen Vinson, and Tarka, a Chinese cook, all take full advantage of good parts...
...House ditched (207-to-204) a bill by Kentucky's Vinson for the Treasury to raise money catch-as-catch-can to pay off the Soldiers' Bonus, passed (318-to-90) and sent to the Senate a bill by Texas' Patman to pay off the Bonus in greenbacks...
...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...
...objections he may have to the prepayment of the bonus by either of these measures, concern for government credit is undoubtedly the dominant one. Either the Patman bill, which proposes immediate payment of the 2 billion dollar bonus (due years hence) by resorting to the printing-press or the Vinson bill which proposes to raise the amount by the sale of bonds, would shatter government credit. Any government which played the bonus now would rightly be considered totally irresponsible by investors, and would have difficulty borrowing money anywhere. Yet gigantic borrowing operations for legitimate purposes are absolutely indispensable...