Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
...Majesty the suave scamp explained the Venetian lottery system. This Louis XV promptly introduced into France, with Casanova as manager, later conferred on him a pension which enabled him to visit and seduce elegant ladies in all parts of Europe. Until recently the Third Republic has scorned to stoop to lotteries, but two months ago Finance Minister Bonnet decided he must take the plunge. Last week he put on sale a batch of 2,000,000 lottery tickets, soon to be followed by four similar batches...
...coal code should go against union labor, an outbreak of such bloody violence was feared that nothing short of Federal troops could restore order. ¶ President Roosevelt began to appoint special boards around the country to review veterans' cases of presumptive military disability, trim bogus claims off the pension rolls. The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars were liberally represented on most boards. ¶ Cuba last week occupied a large part of the President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect...
...establish a new pension system for veterans of all wars to take the place of the previously existing benefits which were repealed by the Congress...
...Washington a 30-year-old married woman lost her job with the Interstate Commerce Commission. She went home in despair, turned on the gas, died. ¶ At Dayton a Spanish War veteran who had been drawing $60 per month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide...