Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives were not certain that Recovery had drawn the political sting of Dr. Francis E. Townsend and his old-age pension plan until last election day. On Nov. 5, 48 hr. after the votes were in, the U. S. District Attorney in Washington announced that he would move at once to prosecute Dr. Townsend for walking out on a House investigating committee last spring (TIME, June 1, Dec. 14). Last week in Washington's Federal District Court the lanky old pensioneer went to trial. A onetime aide testified that Dr. Townsend and his O.A.R.P. directors had planned the walkout...
...With his pension doubled and a grant of an annual ton of wine, Chaucer ended his life in comfort. Ten months before his death he leased, in a sanguine mood, for fifty-three years a house in the garden of St. Mary's Chapel at Westminster. Surrounded by those distinguished men who loved both the poet and man, Chaucer slipped peacefully into eternity at the turn of the century, a round-numbered date that no English student has difficulty in remembering...
...opposed Curley's recent proposed pension system for judges, and the notorious Dog Track Bill of last year. In an attempt to defeat the mayoralty candidates, Curley and Nichols, he proposed the organization of a Fusion movement in Boston, "to save our city from political spollsmen...
Living on a Government pension, Mr. Haskins has concentrated on the art of watching fancy skating, made himself its No. 1 U. S. exponent by traveling to figure skating meets all over the country...
...President read with ripe irony. He paused, grinned, then resumed: "In the Federal courts there are in all 237 life tenure permanent judgeships. Twenty-five of them are now held by judges over 70 years of age and eligible to leave the bench on full pay. Originally no pension or retirement allowance was provided by the Congress. ... In exceptional cases, of course, judges, like other men, retain to an advanced age full mental and physical vigor. Those not so fortunate are often unable to perceive their own infirmities. 'They seem to be tenacious of the appearance of adequacy...