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Long had the President recommended such unification of nationwide veterans' welfare activities. High were his hopes that one office force, one chief, would reduce the costly prevailing ratio of salaries to huge disbursements. Under the new pension laws, the Veterans' Administration will deal with about $800,000,000, far more than any other U. S. department, $1 out of every $5 spent by the Government...
...first pension bill for World War veterans disabled in civil life went on the Federal statute books amid great legislative turmoil last week, less than one hour before Congress adjourned. It represented a major reversal of the policy of compensating World War soldiers for service disabilities only. Small though the amount of the pensions appeared, they were large enough to establish the principle of civil disability payments which in the course of years will undoubtedly dwarf the pension outlays after all other U. S. wars. Spanish War veterans had to wait 22 years for their civil pensions. World War veterans...
After President Hoover vetoed the first World War pension bill fortnight ago, not because he objected to the pension principle as a new policy, but because he disapproved of the size and details of the measure, Congress scrambled to give him a bill of the same kind which he would accept. No. 1 Pension Scrambler in the House was Representative Royal Cleaves Johnson of Aberdeen, S. Dak., chairman of the House Veterans Committee. Congressman Johnson, 47, enlisted in the regular Army in January 1918, won a lieutenant's commission, went to France in July and as an infantry officer...
...veteran disabled in civil life would be paid a pension, regardless of whether his injuries could be traced to military service or not. ranging from $12 per month for 25% disability to $40 for 100% disability...
...restrictions: 1) a veteran who by "willful misconduct" contracted a venereal disease which disabled him would receive no pension; 2) a veteran with a net annual income large enough to pay an income tax ($1,500 or more) would receive no pension...