Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he didn't propose to personally benefit by the summary dismissal of Mr. Gannon. And so after considerable discussion between Mr. Hecht on one side and the board on the other Mr. Hecht's loyalty to his predecessor won out and the board voted a substantial pension which Mr. Gannon received up to the day of his death...
...bill was introduced in the Hawaiian Senate providing a $350 monthly pension for Duke Kahanamoku, oldtime Olympic swimmer, "for services rendered." Once the superintendent of a Honolulu public building, Kahanamoku was recently demoted to janitor. "That looked like an invitation to get out," said...
...January FORTUNE. Another cogent charge against the League is that it is politically inept in concentrating its fire on the single front of veterans' expenditures rather than developing a comprehensive plan of attack against all Government spending. Into the record went the following pensions paid the following persons who were advocating pension cuts: General John Joseph Pershing...
Chief heckler was Indiana's loud Senator Robinson, a War veteran and ardent pension booster. "Outrageous!" he cried when Lobbyist Bullitt called most disability payments "doles, pure and simple," and pointed to Civil War pensions as a "bad principle." Senator Robinson tried to discredit N. E. L. by showing that Lobbyist Bullitt also represented Associated Gas & Electric, "one of the most reckless units in the power trust." The Indianian insisted N. E. L. was being supported by wealthy taxpayers trying to shirk their share of War costs...
...Sandusky, Ohio, inmates of the Ohio Soldiers' & Sailors' Home give local bootleggers, prostitutes & gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25? the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions...