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Albert Bacon Fall, 69, infirm, bribe-convicted (at liberty under bond) Harding Secretary of the Interior, applied to the U. S. for a Spanish War pension in recognition of his service as Captain of Company H, 1st Volunteers, Territorial Infantry. Mr. Fall is in serious financial straits: his New Mexico ranch was lately sold to meet creditors' claims; the U. S. is trying to collect $235,325 back income taxes from him. If his application is pension-worthy he will receive, per month: at most. $72; at least, $40, according to disabilities proven...
Next morning Dr. Work gave political punsters a chance to refer to logrolling when he stepped on an infirm tree bole, was twirled upside down and doused in the cold stream...
...favor of disposing of all captured whiskey as follows: Meeting the requirements of the sheriff and his deputies, the remainder to be turned over to the aged and infirm at the county home...
...Spain the able-bodied child must defend the honor of the infirm parent...
...precisely infirm, perhaps, but paunchy, soft, and comparatively defenseless is Citizen Miguel Primo de Rivera, onetime Dictator of Spain, now with his daughters sampling the delights of Paris...