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...executive pen in the Presidential hand decreed: 1) That the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps should be extended one year beginning April 1; 2) that all discriminating duties and imposts on Soviet vessels and their cargoes should be forthwith ended; 3) that veterans pension regulations should be eased...
...sized fight between President Roosevelt and Congress over veterans' pensions was cut short last June by the hurried adjournment of the Hundred Day special session. That adjournment by no means settled the issue for Congressmen who like to battle, bleed and die for pensioners. They could afford to compromise with the White House in 1933 because there was no election that year. But this is 1934 and the whole House and one third of the Senate must go to the voters in November. That difference largely accounted for last week's resurgence of the pension problem on Capitol...
Ever since its Chicago convention last October, the American Legion has been preparing a drive on Congress to get back as much as possible of the $250,000,000 cut from Veterans' pensions last June. At that time Congress empowered the President to cut pensions up to 25%, and purge the pension rolls of thousands of veterans whose post-War disabilities were classed as War injuries only by legal "presumption." To this end the Legion concentrated on a four-point program...
...Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision of movies). The volume of these communications was prodigious, but not so prodigious as the cloudburst of bills released by the Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred not inside but outside the Senate. Louisiana's blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than...
...during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from...