Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...House no conclusion was reached on the bill in relation to the admission of ship-building material free of duty. The fortification and pension bills were reported. The appropriations amount to $175,000 and $81,000,000 respectively...
...Alban Hall has placed his resignation of the hall in the hands of the chancellor of Oxford University. By a provision of the Oxford University commissioners, the hall comes into the possession of Merton College, and is annexed to it, while the resigning principal is to receive a pension from that society. St. Alban Hall is thus the first of the halls to suffer extinction. Magdalen Hall was some years since endowed by Mr. Baring, and received a charter of incorporation as Hertford College. St. Mary Hall, New Inn Hall and St. Edmund Hall are ultimately destined to absorption...
...they cannot add pickles to the bill of fare without consulting a body of men known as the corporation, who have invariably met just the day before and will not meet again for a month, so that petitions to the board of directors are very much like the pension claim of the old soldier who had calculated that, should everything go smoothly, his great grandchild would have to live to be ninety-six years old to profit by his wounds. Another very curious thing is the fact that if one dines out but two nights in the week beef...
...Senate passed yesterday a bill granting a pension of $5000 a year each to Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler...
Senator Frye of Maine has made a speech on the tariff question, declaring himself a protectionist from principle. The arrears of pension and the tariff were discussed yesterday in the Senate...