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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Record | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...Spain the able-bodied child must defend the honor of the infirm parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Brandied Nose | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Brandied Nose | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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