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Rhode Island Democrats, who last year upset political tradition by taking control of the State Senate, in recent weeks have voted $100 bonuses right & left to Rhode Island War veterans who failed to apply for them within the period originally set by law, ending in 1923. Last week a straight-faced Republican State Senator introduced a bill to pay a $100 bonus to Sergeant Evael O. W. Tnesba of the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. No objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began...
...consisted in their no less strenuous combats to get cash from their various and sundry State governments. In these engagements they were uniformly successful all along the line. I know that some twelve years ago my State of Illinois, after a hot campaign in which the opponents of the bonus were branded as being unpatriotic and slackers, voted them a State bonus, and $55,000,000 worth of bonds were sold in order...
...came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half a billion in taxes to pay for his AAA substitute. On Bonus taxes he still remained silent. Meantime he took two steps to reassure the public that he was steering toward Economy...
...responsible for the whole deal," the elderly lowan rose to declare. "Everybody who put money into it will get it back at the legal rate of interest, compound interest and a bonus. . . . When it is settled not even the bars of the penitentiary will hold me, for the powers-that-be recognize no bars. I can't tell who they are. That would be high treason...
Chrysler Corp, made $34,975,000 in 1935 as against $9,534,000 in 1934. The company took advantage of its good year to pay off the funded debt inherited from Dodge Bros., to spend $11,000,000 on plant improvement, to give employes a cash bonus of $2,300,000 (on present payrolls, about $40 a man). Chrysler sold 843,000 cars to dealers for $516,800,000; sold about one-fourth of all U. S. passenger cars, one-eighth of all U. S. trucks. Chrysler declared a $1 dividend for the first quarter of 1936, compared...