Word: pensioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steeled itself to vote down (119 to 73) a plan to pension members of Congress after 15 years' service from a fund to which they would contribute $500 per year, matched by contributions from the Treasury.* Excerpts from the debate...
...British M.P.s had introduced a bill to pension themselves week before...
...Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
...what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...
...Another witness-of-the-week was Dr. Francis Everett ("Plan") Townsend. who watched grimly from the gallery while the House voted down, 302-to-97, his bill to pay all 60-year-oldsters Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt...