Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running leap, announcing his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. To be sure, he was a Socialist, had run twice for Governor, once for U. S. Senator on the Socialist ticket. But he changed his party for convenience. Then he launched EPIC ("End Poverty In California"). He would pension every needy person over 60, every blind person, every widow with children at the rate of $50 a month. He would tax heavily all building land not built on, all farm land not farmed. He would exempt from taxation all homes and ranches assessed at less than $3,000 and make...
...their first flush of sympathy for the buxom young widow of murdered Chancellor Dollfuss, the new Austrian Government gave her a pension, understood to be for life. Last week Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, devout, severe and thrifty, let Austrians know that if the Widow Dollfuss marries again her pension stops...
Protected in any case are the chubby Dollfuss children, Rudolf and Eva. On the death or remarriage of their mother they will receive half her pension until they...
...indignation should he die imprisoned. Looking worn and broken, 65-year-old Socialist Seitz was spirited secretly to the Auersperg sanatorium. There two detectives were stationed at his bedside and two police men set to guard the door of his private ward. "I am a poor schoolteacher on a pension," wailed Dr. Seitz's wife, "and they tell me I must pay for these guards or my husband will be sent back to jail...
Since their last meeting as members of the Association of Railway Executives, grave matters had arisen. The Railway Pension Bill had been passed, pay cuts had been restored. They listened in silence while committees reported that payments under the pension bill would add $66,000,000 to their operating costs, the restoration of pay cuts on July 1 another $156,000,000, and increases in materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten...