Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The expense was appalling. In six months pensioners had increased from 198,000 to 245,000. The cost of paying them had jumped to more than $17 million a month and had all but broken the bank at Sacramento. Last week California newspapers and businessmen were engaged in an all...
But exuberant, mellow-voiced George H. McLain, the husky, 48-year-old Los Angeles promoter, who is the self-appointed leader1 of California's aged, was ready. McLain, a former Ham & Eggs organizer, who sometimes kneels in public to show his followers how he prays for them, was already...
The state's troubles were largely due to initiative 172, a pension measure put over last autumn by the Communist-dominated Washington Pension Union and its president, a crafty, smooth-talking party-liner named William J. Pennock, 33. Under its terms the old folks not only get money for...
Until Cripps and Bevin arrived, Washington could not be sure of the British position. But it was known that the British were veering toward a practical, circumspect approach. They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope...
¶Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim...