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...Constitution (Income Tax), the 17th (Popular Election of Senators), the 18th (Prohibition) and the 19th (Woman Suffrage). Last year, he tried to read Senator Porter H. Dale and Representative Ernest W. Gibson out of the Vermont party organization for voting to override the President's veto of the Soldiers' Bonus Bill. But Senator Dale has forgiven him that...
...year, working in a coal yard in Detroit. His employer, A. Y. Malcolmson, took some stock in the company Henry Ford was organizing in exchange for guaranteeing the Ford Company's credit up to $7,000. Malcolmson detached Couzens to work with Ford. Couzens had just received a bonus of $500 for bringing the profits of the coal yard up to $90,000 a year. He put this with $400 he had saved, borrowed $100 from his sister and added his personal note for $1,500- with this total of $2,500 he bought 25 shares of Ford stock...
...first clay of March saw the first distribution of cash made under the Bonus Act of last year. Checks were in the mail to veterans whose credit was for $50 or less and to dependents of dead veterans...
...Only 27,000 applications were made by persons ineligible to receive a bonus...
...first message. Laboriously, painfully, he went over nearly every proposal which was before the country. He tried to master each. Believing, as a New Englander does, that a thing is either right or wrong, he did not attempt to dodge or straddle any question. Even the red hot Soldier Bonus he touched, briefly to be sure, in his own interest, making his statement merely...