Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stampeded in a wild, all-parties, vote-getting scramble to voice (but not vote) approval for a proposal to "equalize" (raise) the pensions of 40,000 British veterans of previous wars to the pension scale of World War veterans...
...German mechanic, was recaptured, escaped again only a fortnight before the Armistice. After the War he went back to India, is now a major. He was still good at polo and played on the team which won the 1922 Inter-regimental and Cavalry tournaments. In 1924 he retired on pension, became polo correspondent for the London Times, assistant editor of the London Spectator...
Loss of Italian Citizenship will hereafter bar the payment of any pension whatsoever from an Italian source to ex-citizens...
...Court acquitted Herr Boess of "misdemeanor," censured him for "incorrect behavior," fined him one month's salary of 3,000 marks ($714). This left him free to retire last week ("because of poor health") and receive for life the handsome pension of a Berlin Ober-Bürgermeister (equivalent to "Lord Mayor"), namely: 30,000 marks ($7,140) a year...
George Poindexter Bagby, vice president of Western Maryland Railway Co., acting president since the murder of Chairman-President Maxwell Cunningham Byers (TIME. Oct. 6), was elected president of the road. The position of chair-man remains vacant. At the same directors' meeting, a substantial pension to be used in the education of Mr. Byers' five sons was voted...