Word: pensioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ingalls yesterday argued in the Senate against the repeal of the pension arrears legislation...
...friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln denies the reports that she is nearly poverty-stricken. She has $55,000, besides her pension of $3,000 per year. He says her mind is completely wrecked, and she is insane on the question of poverty...
Yesterday in the House Mr. Robinson of New York made a very amusing, high-flown speech in regard to imprisoned Americans. Several messages were received from the President. Pension estimates were asked for, and a bill introduced to remit the duty on New Testaments imported by the American company of revisers for free distribution among scholars and theolologians. In the Senate Senator Sherman spoke in defence of his refunding bill, and a number of nominations were received from the President...
...Dudley thinks that with 400 men in the field as special agents, he will be able to stop the gigantic pension frauds...
...purpose of exemplifying what the present corporation, after careful consultation with the present professors and assistant professors, regard as a suitable system' of retiring allowances. In July, 1879, Mr. George Baty Blake sent one thousand dollars to the president and fellows, as a contribution towards a pension fund; and, in the spring of 1880, a distinguished graduate of the college informed the president that he intended to give ten thousand dollars for that general purpose whenever the corporation, after consultation with the professors, should have arrived at a system of administration which commended itself to their judgment. Since the action...