Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poinaré. "Remember that in his day Antoine Monis was among the great lawyers of France, that is to say of all the world. . . . "Messieurs. For the honor of France we must rescue Antoine Monis from destitution. The Government lays before you a bill to grant him an annual pension of 24,000 francs ($960) for the few years that he has yet to live. . . ." On such a bill the Chamber could vote only...
...Passed pension bill for Civil War relicts, increasing some pensions. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder of a 24-century-old philosophy? What bursar has collected fees from the seed of Plato, Aristotle, Buddha or Mohammed? Sheltered in his ducal palace, sustained by a state pension antedating Christianity, served by his stepmother (it is polygamy that has kept Confucius line unbroken) small Duke K'ung seemed to have an excellent chance of reaching an age where- U. S. immigration policy permitting-he might cause U. S. headlines: "Kid Confucius, Freshman, Comes to Old Penn" or, since...
...crooks and bootleggers. The Treasury has been wide open long enough. I am ready to compromise, however, and in the interest of Congressional decency and cleanliness and to get the Prohibition alley-cat off the backs of so-called American statesmen, I will agree to vote a liberal pension to Wayne Wheeler,* provided he will move out of the country and into some land like Soviet Russia or Mexico, where his peculiar talents will be appreciated and poison gas is more popular...
...could eject him. He promptly came to the New World to heal his wounds of heart and body and to win his spurs in real action. With Washington and his colleagues he was at once popular and prominent. In 1783 Congress bestowed citizenship upon him, gave him lands, a pension, the rank of brigadier general, thanked him. * Not to be confused with Pelmanism, from the Pelman Institute, through which Power in such things is taught. Said a Manhattan newspaper of the Charm course: "How to eat peas without mashed potatoes...