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...Major Hoover vetoes: 1) pension increase for Spanish War veterans (repassed over his objections) ; 2) first disability pension for War veterans (repassed as new legislation); 3) Bonus loans (repassed); 4) Harney County, Ore., land care; 5) 50? Gadsden Purchase coins...
...five months (March to August, 1886) President Cleveland vetoed 108 private Civil War pension bills...
...married her, but Ray was not that kind. Instead she starved herself to send money to an impoverished niece, and tried to make ends meet by playing the races. She got to be a well-known figure at the tracks but made no killing. Retired to a cheap French pension she outlived her poodle Babe, but not for long. The Author. Hearty Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) loves words like "thigh" and "sausage." Born in Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati) 41 years ago, she grew up in St. Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted as saleswoman...
...Sample Senate bills calling for large outlays: $500,000,000 road building (Iowa's Brookhart), $500,000,000 River & Harbor development (Minnesota's Shipstead), $30,000,000 free wheat distribution by Federal Farm Board (Kansas' Capper), $50,000,000 increased War Veterans pension (Alabama's Black), $150,000,000 public works (Illinois' Glenn), $10,000.000 Mediterranean fruit fly relief (Florida's Trammel), $100,000,000 free jobless relief (Massachusetts' Walsh). A half dozen measures have been introduced in the House providing for $4,000,000,000 to cash soldier bonus certificates...
...Hoover requesting extraordinary unemployment relief funds (see p. 14). ¶ Passed the first supply bill, that for the Treasury & Post Office Departments totalling $1,083,553,943 after rejecting (106-10-54) a Wet proposal to eliminate poison as an industrial alcohol denaturant. ¶ Passed an omnibus Civil War pension bill benefiting 675 persons...