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...pride in accomplishment. . . ." In Exile. Samuel Insull did not come back the same man who sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan...
...Please do your utmost to understand this. There are just as many members of the American Legion who are firmly against any pension, compensation or any kind of payment for doing what they, as Americans, considered their duty-excepting the care of the men who were disabled in service, or as a direct result of that same service, and unable to care for themselves as there are those in favor of any method of, or excuse for robbing the Treasury. Please make an honest effort, Mr. Greene, to know what you are talking about before you try to condemn...
...down with a band? No one could say nay to so unprecedented a patriotic gesture, but a number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station...
France's veterans, realizing the emergency, were considerably more tractable than the American Legion. They accepted the 3% pension cut, but at the same time the National Council of the Confederation of War Veterans served an ultimatum on the Government: The cut must be for one year only, beginning July 1. Before that time the Government must take definite action "toward repression of scandals, revision of the financial markets, repression of fiscal frauds, restoration and reorganization of credit, reorganization of the railways and reform of the State. . . . Otherwise the veterans will impose their own program of national renovation...
...weeks all French newspapers have been muttering that political parties of every complexion were arming for civil war, but here was the first official threat to the Government. Premier Doumergue won his point that to balance the budget the pension cuts must be retroactive from April 1, then hastened to comply with other parts of the veterans' demands...