Word: pensioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Department of the Interior. Secretary Work presented an exceptionally brief report summarizing the work of his Department including the Pension Bureau, Patent Office, reclamation projects and Howard University (Negro). His recommendations included increased pensions for Civil War veterans and their widows, to be granted solely on the ground of their growing age and infirmities...
...Senate Bill No. 1," a bill granting Mrs. Harding a pension of $5,000 a year and "Senate Bill No. 2," a bill to grant Mrs. Harding the franking privilege for free use of the mails. (They now go to the House...
...Matin, Paris journal, told a story about the widow of the French Consul at Yokohama, who was killed in the earthquake, claiming a pension...
...Madame," said an apostle of red tape, "as your husband was not drowned in a shipwreck, you have a right to only one-quarter of his salary for a pension. It is unfortunate for you that he was not drowned, as then you would have got three-quarters...
...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...