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Export Depenture. To help eliminate this hard-fought Senate provision from the bill whereby farmers would be guaranteed a bonus on their exported commodities, Republican Leader Tilson flipped out a letter from President Hoover, read into it a threat of veto for the whole measure unless the debenture plan was killed...
...since the boat was burned in 1927) and Tufts College Medical School. Its prime purpose: to train family doctors for practice in rural New England. As recently as 1921, 78 Massachusetts towns had no physicians. At present 226 Maine towns have none. Many offer $1,000 to $3,500 bonus to settlers, get no response...
...directors told workers' delegates last week that they must accept a 20% wage cut because of the falling price of cotton goods. "Why is it then," asked a blunt workers' delegate, "that you continue to pay 35% dividends? Why have you just voted your chairman, Mr. Sanji Muto, a bonus...
...they were permanently united. To preserve this touching relation, gangs should work on both chimneys at once, and in a spirit of friendly rivalry throw bricks at each other until the work is completed. The first man to reach the ground alive would receive a two cent bonus as well as a gold medal from the Woman's Republican Club bearing the inscription: "You're a perfect brick...
...voted against the Jones (heavier Prohibition penalties) Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), the Soldier Bonus (1924). His own campaign declaration about himself: "There is probably no greater friend of the World War veterans than Colorado's Senator Lawrence C. Phipps...