Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Widows Pension Bill (TIME, Oct. 28) passed after an all-night debate lasting 18 hours which resulted in the altering of exactly one word in the original text...
Tall, good-looking, social, Bishop-elect Robbins has no worries about an old-age pension or about living on the salary of a Bishop-Coadjutor ($7,500). About the time he resigned his deanship last spring he was left by a bachelor uncle a legacy...
Alfred I. DuPont caused a survey to be made of Delaware's aged poor so that the legislature might be persuaded to pension them. Last year, after a similar survey, the legislators were apathetic, Mr. DuPont gave the money himself...
...Pension Expert is a very real title to Mr. Sayre. Seven years after leaving Harvard in 1898, he was Pension Expert of the Carnegie Foundation. Now he is pension adviser to the U. S. Federal Reserve system, to the Church of England, as well as to the Episcopal Church. Present assets of the Protestant Episcopal Church Pension Fund are $25,000,000. Offices are at No. 14 Wall St., Manhattan. Income on the Fund supplies the pension money. To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled. The average pension: $800 per year...
Last week, Monell Sayre went to a conference at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, one of Manhattan's newest, most expensive churches. The subject was not money but the "mystical element in the Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar-getting, but on "Mysticism to a Business Man." More and better preaching was what Mr. Sayre wanted. Parsons had propounded too much politics and social uplift, not enough mysticism, he said. What the workingman needed was an awareness of God. Said he: "If you try to talk Christianity to industrial...