Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Caroline Poulder King, 88, last surviving widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 (Private Darius King who served 54 days); in Cheektowaga, N. Y. She married King, then 73, in 1869, drew $14,149 pension (total 1812 War pensions: $43,216,480.57) after he died 17 years later...
...given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since 1933, second only...
Last week, Widow Sadie Monssen, 50, had not been forgotten by other agencies of her Government. From the Veterans' Administration she has been getting a $30-a-month widow's pension. From WPA her daughter has had $24 a week relief pay. From HOLC she received a notice that her home in Brooklyn would be foreclosed because she could not raise more than $35 of the $65.56 due monthly on her loans and owed $967 back interest...
Moser, who refused to accept a pension four years ago, likes working for Harvard, although he is not overly emotional in saying so. "Well, if I hadn't liked it, I'd of gotten out before this," he remarked...
...Francis E. Townsend, as he arrived in Washington last week to "clean up this contempt business"-i. e., to serve a 30-day sentence for having walked out on a Congressional committee trying to investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...