Word: moosehaven
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...year for the right to congregate at local lodges and for an unusual brand of social security: their families are eligible, in case of need, for an orphanage and school complex in Mooseheart, and upon retirement they can go to a Florida rest home called Moosehaven...
...helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted in a Moose lottery scandal (his alleged cut: $172,300) in which three associates were convicted of conspiracy...
...Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...
...route; those who came to cheer remained to shiver; the Moosemen marched on. It soaked their hats, it trickled down their socks; a one-legged Moose from New Orleans, playing a trombone, hobbled along; barges bobbed, floats floated-floats showing life at the colony of aged Moose at Moosehaven; floats representing the training of the child, boy and man at Mooseheart; the rain fell. The Moose finished their march, elected officers, took rides through Green Spring Valley, dispersed...
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