Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Rico (praying for the non-application of the flour processing tax), the Holy Name Society at Saginaw, Mich, (asking closer supervision of movies). The volume of these communications was prodigious, but not so prodigious as the cloudburst of bills released by the Senators themselves- mostly individual relief and pension measures. The most arresting example of Senatorial bravura occurred not inside but outside the Senate. Louisiana's blatant Long thought he had taken a wide swing to the Left when he introduced a resolution for Senate legislation which would allow no citizen to keep more than...
...since the War, Tammany Hall faces a long lean winter of political starvation, not of four months but of four years. Ridiculed by civic organizations, proved corrupt by a righteous investigator, beaten at the polls by a fiery little Italian-American Major, the Tammany sachems have been voting themselves pensions and appointments as fast as their Board of Estimate could say "Yea." At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien. Out of dusty files they fished up and passed a pension for a onetime Market Commissioner...
When civic organizations howled with rage, Mayor O'Brien replied that since city officials contributed part of their salaries to the pension fund it was not true that "all you had to do was shake the tree and the plums come tumbling down." Later it was discovered that of $144,000 earmarked to keep the O'Briens from starvation, the Mayor had contributed exactly $28,000, the city having put up the rest...
...during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from...
...that Jose ("Wood Louse") Obregon, son-in-law of President Machado hired by Chase's Havana branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol, that the whole Machado Cabinet had big graft in construction of Havana's waterworks. Finally Inquisitor Pecora himself dammed up the flood of epistolary candor, suppressed one paragraph...