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...Calvin Coolidge never dared to do. On July 1 more than 500,000 of the 1,418,853 pensioners were abruptly dropped from the rolls. These were veterans of the Spanish and World Wars who were being paid for ailments, real or imaginary, acquired in peacetime. President Roosevelt would weed out thousands more before Oct. 31 to bring pension economy up to $350,000,000. Of the 440,000 men & women who serve the Federal Government (outside the Army & Navy), about 20,000 were scheduled for discharge or indefinite furlough. Big droppings: Prohibition Bureau, 1,300: Coast Guard...
...Additional cost: $60,000,000. The House, through its leaders, demanded that the 154,000 veterans with "presumptive" Wartime injuries also be put back on the pension rolls. Additional cost: $160,000,000. The President agreed, provided he was allowed to re-examine the "presumptive" list and weed out all veterans who could not definitely prove that their disabilities were connected with their War service. Additional cost $80,000,000. The House was willing but only on condition that the President would give the veteran the benefit of doubt in borderline cases. Additional cost: $100,000,000. The President agreed...
High jump--Won by Badman (A),5ft. 10in.; second, A. H. Weed (H), 5ft. 9in.; third, tie between P. C. Tiffany (H), L. N. Stevens (H), J. C. Precut...
...bill as riders to give the President even greater powers as an economizer. Authority was sought for the President to: 1) retire Federal employes after 30 years' civil service and leave their jobs vacant; 2) furlough indefinitely on half pay any number of Army officers (the plan: to weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given to surplus graduates from the Naval Academy; 5) readjust downward the extra flying...
...first day of the University handicap Track Meet yesterday, G. H. Bullwinkle 1L crossed the finish line two feet ahead of Arthur Foote, II '33 in the mile run. Shaun Kelly '36, won the quarter-mile race with a handicap of 18 yards, A. H. Weed '36 took first place in the high jump with a four-inch handicap, and a jump of 5 feet, 11 inches, and F. B. Johnson '36, with a large handicap, defeated J. H. Dean '34, and J. J. Healey '34 in the shot...