Word: pensionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles announced that he (personally) had told Vincent how he felt, and that Vincent had resigned as minister to Morocco and diplomatic agent at Tangier. Under the retirement system of the Foreign Service, the ex-diplomat will collect a yearly pension...
Crimson Captain Wait Greeley bounced on off the post at 2.35 for the Crimson's only seal. Pension butt up Broughout the second period, with some magnificent flurries and missed chances in front of both goals...
...vice president with wide powers. He set about junking millions of dollars worth of unprofitable cats & dogs, wrote off inventories and cut payrolls. ("He'd fire his grandmother if she wasn't doing a good job," said a friend, "but he'd put her on a pension.") Hanna never again lost money, even during the depression of the 1930s. On the solid foundation Humphrey started building up a new Hanna, drawing on his understanding of basic U.S. industry and his self-acknowledged talent for picking good partners. ("I'm as good at picking partners," he says...
...pension-conscious reporter asked the Pentagon about the future pay of a few officers who are about to retire. The answer: Reserve Colonel Harry Truman, Field Artillery, will get retirement pay of $112.56 a month. His old friend and aide Harry Vaughan will retire with 75% of his major general's base pay, plus a 40% disability claim, which will bring his monthly check to at least...
...after a long interval of historical filibustering, Novelist Street sends Lepe off with Christopher Columbus in search of India. The gaunt Genoese captain promises an annual pension of 25,000 maravedis to the man who first sights land, and Lepe is the lucky fellow. But his luck turns to wormwood when Columbus cheats him of the money. Embittered, Lepe settles in North Africa, marries somebody less fascinating than Maraela, and grows rich. At the end, Lepe earns the satisfaction of having a broken Columbus beg him for money, and a broken Maraela beg him for pity...