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...Pensions of $15 a month for all widows and orphans of the World War-a brand new proposal which was not law even in the lush pension days of Coolidge and Hoover...
...Restoration of the 25% pension cut. 2) Reinstatement as War-injured pensioners of all veterans whose disabilities acquired before 1925 could not be proved by the Government not to have been caused...
...head off this Congressional drive on his economy program, President Roosevelt adroitly went a fraction of the way to meet the Veterans' demands. He announced that to "correct inequalities" he had by executive order restored certain of his pension cuts: an increase from $90 to $100 a month in pensions for total, service-connected disabilities; liberalization of hospital privileges for all sick veterans; an increase of burial allowances for dead veterans from $75 to $100. Cost of the changes: $21,000,000 a year, cheap if it serves to smother the Reed bill...
With things thus getting hot for the Administration. the President again stepped in, as he did on veterans' pension to make mollifying concessions to Congress. By executive order he directed the Federal Trade Commission to look out for the interests of any small business which appealed to it for help against code-born monopolies, directed that, if the Trade Commission could not help, the case should be passed along to the Department of Justice. In short the Federal Trade Commission was to check and balance...
...DEATH-Carlton Wallace-Crime Club ($2). The extortioner's slogan is "pay or die," and so successful is he that Superintendent Bendilow of the Yard leaves job and pension, even simulates death to catch...