Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect to gain support from people who will not receive the pension by telling them that it will bring back prosperity and a full dinner pail. Whether it will or will not is problematical, but the only way to find out is to try it. Certainly, if $200 a month to octogenarians will bring back prosperity, $10,000 a month to more people will bring it back 50 times as fast. That is simple arithmetic...
...kick was most considerate. The Realmleader, while dismissing Herr Feder as Commissar for Homesteading and Undersecretary of Economics, granted him a handsome pension for life...
...Finney last week came $23 from the sovereign State of Iowa. It was an old-age pension check? the first he had ever received, the first Iowa had ever paid. It marked the start of Iowa's new old-age pension system which will distribute up to $25 per month to indigent persons over 65. The money is raised by a $2-a-year head tax on all lowans over...
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.* In six States pensions are optional with each county, which pays at least part of the cost. In the other 22, pension laws are mandatory and the aged, over 65 or 70. get from a maximum of $390 a year in New Hampshire to a minimum of $150 a year in North Dakota, provided they can prove their need...
...years ago only Montana had an old-age pension law. Only four States had such laws prior to 1929. The New Deal and Depression gave the first real impetus to the movement; ten States and the Territory of Hawaii passed such laws in 1933. This winter President Roosevelt will move in Congress to nationalize the old-age pension idea, spread it over...