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...House, he submitted to Congress his estimates for the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill. At the last session was passed a similar measure carrying $1,083,567,534, of which $966,838,634 was for veterans. On March 4 President Hoover vetoed it because of Congress' failure to reduce pensions. In the revised version of this supply measure for warded to the Capitol, Director Douglas asked for only $615,159,926 - a clear saving of $468,407,608 due almost entirely to President Roosevelt's orders reducing pension payments after July...
...value of study abroad must disappear, for one may hear mere lectures delivered in French as well in Cambridge as in Paris. Educational critics have long attacked the self-consciousness of the American student abroad, and his unfortunate tendency to establish an exclusive colony of friends in a single pension. Such a project as the present one, which contemplates the enshrinement of this separatism in a luxurious setting, can scarcely seem will advised...
...would not mind in view of their improved security. Farmers would pay the Land Banks 4½% on their new mortgages and be free from foreclosure for at least two years. ¶ By another of his quick, bold pen-squiggles, President Roosevelt last week created a brand-new military pension system for the U. S. and saved the Treasury more than $400,000,000. By authority of the Economy Act, he issued a set of twelve long regulations, prepared by Budget Director Douglas over the loud objections of the veterans' lobby and affecting some 1,400,000 pensioners after...
...important legislation. His smiling facility charmed even rabid Republicans. In a dozen days 14,000 laudatory telegrams swamped the White House. Catching the temper of the times the national commander of the American Legion tried to swing its 10,709 posts behind the President the instant Congress authorized pension cuts...
...first House roll call passing the President's vital economy bill, three Manhattan and seven Brooklyn Democrats voted against it. In the van of the opposition was Brooklyn's freckled Cullen, assistant majority leader of the House, who explained that he had made campaign pledges against salary pension cuts. Said he: "I'm with the President 100% but I'd given my word to my constituents and I'm too old to go back...