Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stadium, It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums. It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections, Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension. It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather...
...prepared for that move. It must recognize that a passive attitude of accepting what other people do is not worthy of Harvard or likely to solve the greatest industrial problem of the present. For example, Harvard should have been one of the first to work out an Old Age Pension Plan instead of being one of the corporations that yielded when the whole country was talking about the inevitability of the scheme. An active, positive attitude towards finding how labor ought to be treated is called for, and not a policy of waiting until the country creeps ahead and then...
Appearing before the meeting to point out advantages gained by a system of union representatives for each dining unit, Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor of Economics challenged the University's pension system...
...Bohemian garret-&-starvation conception of a great artist does not apply to Sibelius. Since 1897 he has enjoyed a modest pension from the Finnish state, which has provided him with leisure to compose. At his house at Jarvenpaa he lives the secluded life of a highly respectable country gentleman. His five daughters have long since gone forth to marry and raise families of their own. He and his wife live alone, looked after by two maids. He relishes good food and drink, smokes continually the best and largest Havana cigars, is partial between meals to well-aged whiskey served...
...join the union or to leave and seek another position. Such an abandonment of these who have worked here for many years, who relish its protection through the guarantee of steady work, with slight chance of dismissal for economic or political reasons, who benefit by its group insurance and pension plans, is unlike the attitude that should be assumed by a liberal employer...