Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Executive Competency. After three years at Albany Governor Roosevelt points with pride to a mass of useful legislation he has wangled out of a hostile Legislature with soft words and threats. He has put through an old age State pension law. He has won permission to raise $50,000,000 by bonds to house the State's sick, insane and criminal. He has reduced rural taxes. He has advanced a broad program for reforestation. He has put more occupational diseases under the Workman's Compensation Act, improved rent laws. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor has praised...
...handwriting, President Farrell's statement said his resignation had been accepted by the board to take effect April 18 but that he would remain a director. Surprised were the steel trade and Wall Street because his retirement would have been automatic, under the company's new pension plan, when he became 70 years old on Feb. 15, 1933 (TIME, April...
...Morgan. He was and is famed as "father" of the country's steel export trade. Son of a ship master who was drowned, Jim Farrell started work at 16 in a New Haven wire mill for $4.65 a week. Now his salary is $100,000 a year, his pension will be about...
...year and a half ago I begged you to let me return to the ranks without asking position or pension. You responded with an order to remain. I obeyed then, as was my duty. But today. . . I must repeat that wish. . . . Duce, permit therefore that I return into the ranks . . . with the proud consciousness of having served...
...Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...