Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Including public debt payments in the classification of military expenditures . . . is in the same dishonest category as charging up to the army the civilian work which it is obliged to perform by acts of Congress. One may even question the propriety of including the cost of operations of the Pension Bureau and the Veterans' Bureau in the list of military expenditures. These prodigious costs are to a large extent the direct result of our unpreparedness...
...bills. This number was cut down to 1,763, which were reported out by committees; finally 931 laws were passed-the highest number by any Congress since the 59th. Of these, 655 were public or general laws and 276 so-called private laws-that is, laws granting pensions, or reimbursing individuals and corporations for losses inflicted by the Government. The number of private laws would have been much greater, but for 22 omnibus pension bills which embodied 2,048 private bills...
...State budget and this promise we must keep at all costs." A royal decree was issued providing for a thorough comb-out of all government departments with a view to cutting State expenditure. Persons over 65 or those who have had 40 years' service will be retired on pension. Power is given to Ministers to dispense with all employees not giving maximum satisfaction. The Army and Navy and other government military organizations are exempted. The railways will be dealt with later in a special decree. Abroad-Mussolini, referring to the newspaper campaign in favor of a Franco-Italian alliance...
...Labor motion that every person should be eligible for an old age pension on reaching 70 years of age without reference to income was defeated by a narrow government majority of 22. Great excitement in the Labor benches and loud cries of "Resign...
Here is a matter for the Student Council. If University policy forbids such a pension let us change University policy. The old man would welcome such a pension and the chance to spend his last few years in the rest and quiet it would give him. This is a matter which appeals so strongly to the sense of decency and justice that I believe publicity is all it needs to bring about proper action...