Word: pensionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maharajas, the wealthy Gaekwar of Baroda. Charging, among other things, that he was promoting princely rebellion against the republic, and had not accounted for almost $5,000,000 of his princely state funds, the government ordered the Gaekwar stripped of all royal titles, plus his half-million-dollar annual pension (leaving him with an annual income estimated as high as $8,000,000). The former ruler of a princedom of 8,000 square miles and some 3,000,000 subjects has a month in which to appeal the decision...
Tuesday night's performance is to be the annual concert for the benefit of the Orchestra's Pension Fund. For the first time in 25 years the entire Glee Club was not invited to sing at this event. Only 123 singers will represent the combined choral groups this year. David Lloyd is the tenor soloist...
...will serve as chairman at $300,000 a year (1950 salary as president: $250,800). After that, for the rest of his life, K.T. will be paid $75,000 a year for services he will be called upon to render. The $75,000 will be in addition to his pension of $25,200 a year...
Back in Portugal he married and spent 20 years on the manuscript of his adventures. It was never published in his lifetime, but he had official recognition of a sort anyway. In 1583, in his 74th year, the Portuguese government awarded him a pension of two hogsheads of corn annually "for his services in India." Four months later, Fernão Mendes Pinto was dead...
Munch's action, according to a spokesman for the Glee Club, may be the result of his dissatisfaction with the full chorus' work in last year's Pension Fund concert. Munch prefers to work with a smaller and more select group, the spokesman said...