Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here was news, news that all Cuban newspapers could print without fear, and they spread themselves with pictures, columns of text and descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...House, he submitted to Congress his estimates for the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill. At the last session was passed a similar measure carrying $1,083,567,534, of which $966,838,634 was for veterans. On March 4 President Hoover vetoed it because of Congress' failure to reduce pensions. In the revised version of this supply measure for warded to the Capitol, Director Douglas asked for only $615,159,926 - a clear saving of $468,407,608 due almost entirely to President Roosevelt's orders reducing pension payments after July...
...when the latter died. The title Duke of Wellington and the right to bear the Union Jack on his coat of arms is but a small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene of one of his grandfather's great victories and centre of the Spanish estates thrust upon him by a grateful Cortes, is a little fortified Spanish town between Salamanca and the Portuguese frontier. Tourists bless the ultra-British foxhunting Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo...
...value of study abroad must disappear, for one may hear mere lectures delivered in French as well in Cambridge as in Paris. Educational critics have long attacked the self-consciousness of the American student abroad, and his unfortunate tendency to establish an exclusive colony of friends in a single pension. Such a project as the present one, which contemplates the enshrinement of this separatism in a luxurious setting, can scarcely seem will advised...
...would not mind in view of their improved security. Farmers would pay the Land Banks 4½% on their new mortgages and be free from foreclosure for at least two years. ¶ By another of his quick, bold pen-squiggles, President Roosevelt last week created a brand-new military pension system for the U. S. and saved the Treasury more than $400,000,000. By authority of the Economy Act, he issued a set of twelve long regulations, prepared by Budget Director Douglas over the loud objections of the veterans' lobby and affecting some 1,400,000 pensioners after...