Word: pensionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator John M. Butler announced that he wants to make organized labor subject to existing antitrust laws. Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, chairman of a labor subcommittee on remedial legislation, is at work directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down on abuses in business financing. Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan will doubtless offer...
Beck v. Beck. First was a gentle coup de grâce to be administered to outgoing President Dave Beck. Fat Dave, once the unchallenged Teamster baron who patted little Jimmy Hoffa on the head, was to be booted into retirement (with an annual $50,000 pension) because of his outsize financial shenanigans, because he had been accused of fleecing a Teamster's widow, and because he had stood in the way of ambitious Jimmy. Bellowed Beck, in an hour-long swan song: "To thine own self be true! I would like to see the man who can stand...
Scherzo to Finale. His life was without outward struggle. A doctor's son, Sibelius had been back home after his studies in Germany for only six years when the Finnish government gave him a 2,000-marks-a-year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera...
...bureaucrats proliferate their duties. One intrepid Italian insists that he had to fill out pounds of forms, in triplicate, for the files of nine different government offices, just to build a house. An Italian soldier, wounded in 1943 and certified in 1946 as 50% disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People who years ago ran two words together in telegrams find themselves summoned by registered mail, told to fill...
...Snitching. But Gordon also reported that "the big majority are brave and dedicated and underpaid," 'and the Press announced that his rookie's take-home pay of $1,740.16 would go to the police pension fund. Promised Gordon: "Six months didn't make me a veteran copper. But I've been one long enough to know I'm not going to snitch on any of them. I'm going to cross up dates and places whenever true identities might hurt somebody. I'm going to tell all the story...