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...republic abolished by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.* As an exile in the Dominican Republic (1939-46) and the U.S., Galindez kept in touch with the Paris "government" headed by Jose de Aguirre, first and only President of the Basque republic. Aguirre himself appointed Galindez as the official Basque representative and fund raiser in the U.S. In his half-yearly statements filed with the foreign agent section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Galindez reported taking in $1,023,004 in contributions during the past seven years and paying out $32,108 in expenses...
...striking fact stood out in the flurry of news about Galindez' fund raising: in the generous U.S. it is entirely possible for an obscure exile to pass the hat for the nonrecognized government of a nonexistent country-and take in a cool million...
MOBILE PENSIONS enabling workers to carry accumulated pension credits from job to job are being pushed on West Coast. After short strike, Libby, McNeill & Libby has signed agreement giving 1,500 West Coast Teamsters Union members mobile pensions, will pay 10? per hour per worker into fund which union and management will administer jointly. With Libby victory, Teamsters have won mobile pensions for a total of more than 200,000 workers in eleven Western states, hope to boost total...
...little more than 100,000 Americans are covered by variable annuity plans, such as the pioneer College Retirement Equities Fund (started four years ago for college personnel only), the Boeing Airplane variable plan, and half a dozen others. All are restricted nonprofit groups. If the commercial insurance companies want to try variable annuities, it seems likely that they will have to accept regulation by the SEC. Then they will be able to offer both types of annuities to their customers...
...spared plenty. He was a longtime trustee of Columbia University and La fayette College, campaigned hard for the United Negro College Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, gave generously to religious groups. One 1955 gift: $1,000,000 to the Genesee (N.Y.) Conference of the Methodist Church...