Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declared (5-to-4) the Railway Pension Act unconstitutional for going beyond the Federal Government's power to regulate interstate commerce...
Printing Press Money "The first person injured by sky-rocketing prices is the man on a fixed income. Every disabled veteran on pension or allowance is on fixed income. This bill favors the able-bodied veteran at the expense of the disabled veteran. . . . Every country that has attempted the form of meeting its obligations which is here provided has suffered disastrous consequences. In the majority of cases printing press money has not been retired through taxation. Because of increased costs, caused by inflated prices, new issue has followed new issue, ending in the ultimate wiping out of the currency...
...need to be a prophet to assert that if these certificates, due in 1945, are paid in full today, every candidate for election to the Senate or to the House of Representatives will in the near future be called upon in the name of patriotism to support general pension legislation for all veterans, regardless of need...
...City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...
What inspired them was meditation on a matter cheering to many a Republican heart: Mr. Justice Roberts' opinion invalidating the Railway Pension Act (TIME, May 13) in which he held that laudable social aims are no substitute for constitutionality. A man with such beliefs might be the leader whom Republicans desired. Was he not, they asked, only 60, a good age for a candidate? Had this Philadelphia lawyer not received the cachet of approval from Presidents Coolidge and Hoover? Had he not struck up a fine friendship with the Press while prosecuting the Teapot Dome oil cases...