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...complex overhauling of veterans' compensation, allowance, pensions, insurance and hospitalization to save about $127,000,000. Examples: No Federal income tax payer could draw a pension. Civil disability allowances would be granted only the totally and permanently disabled. Retired emergency officers in hospitals would have their pensions cut to $20 per month after 30 days treatment. Veterans now drawing $50 per month for arrested tuberculosis would lose their compensation. A system of periodic physical examinations would weed out malingerers...
...would appreciate being enlightened on this subject and feel sure that I will receive a real unbiased answer from your staff. I cannot believe that this problem has not been solved, but would like to know, inasmuch as I am a tax payer in Los Angeles, which city is contemplating a large bond issue to construct an aqueduct to bring some of the Boulder Dam water to Los Angeles...
...entrust themselves to the care of an incompetent psychiatrist can not expect that the criminal classes, all in need of mental care to a greater or lesser degree, will be much benefited under the care of wardens trained only to pass the civil service examinations. Conversely, the tax-payer can consider as well spent any money used to attract academically trained men into the field of corrective administration...
...Karl Payer, Socialist Deputy who had helped organize the park mass meeting, suddenly grew frightened at the turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
Founded in 1861, the Chicago & Alton claims to have been first to introduce dining and sleeping cars. Its main terminals are Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City. The road was a prosperous dividend-payer for many a year, but after E. H. Harriman purchased it from T. D. Blackstone it grew more mortgages than it could carry. In 1889 it acquired a $45,000,000 mortgage, on which it has steadily paid interest. In 1900 came a $22,000,000 mortgage, held by Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Manhattan, and in 1912 an $18,000,000 mortgage held by United States Mortgage...