Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years: "You are all damned lucky to get Admiral Leahy...
Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18,751,000 to start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave...
Back in Minneapolis, the Maharanee's family received news of the marriage with mixed emotions. Her father, a 64-year-old retired railroad switchman who gets along on a $30-a-month pension, was proud of the way Peggy was getting ahead in the world. But her brother Edward, a WPA worker, could not see it that way. "It's his race," he snapped. "I don't like...
...University Pension system, another bone of contention between the two bargaining powers, was kept in full force despite the workers' previous demand that it be abolished at all costs. The issue was held up in earlier negotiations because it was felt that national legislation might outlaw Harvard's present insurance policy...
Professor Robinson will be sixty-eight next month and has been eligible to retire on pension for the past two years. He has taught Celtic and early English Literature at Harvard since...