Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting On. In San Antonio, Marcello Martinez, 118, visited the State Department of Public Welfare to ask whether he was eligible to receive an old-age pension...
...Soong sisters, Wellesley-graduated Meiling, a Christian and a daughter of famed "Old Charlie" Soong, who had made his first fortune in printing and selling Chinese Bibles. (Chiang's first wife, who was still living then, was sent back to her village, Chinese-style, to live on a pension.) Chiang himself became a Methodist, but the conversion did not end his study of Confucian principles; he added the Bible to his readings of the Chinese classics...
...Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would be dandy: she "would find no difficulty in making a living in this country, since she is a competent farmer...
Last week the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago slapped down both company and union. It ruled 2 to i that the Taft-Hartley Act's requirement for non-Communist affidavits is constitutional. It ruled unanimously that management must bargain on pensions with qualified unions. Even employers who already have pension systems, said the court, will have to consult unions on any changes. Both Inland and the union will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court...
White-haired Horace M. Ainscough, 62, first went down the pits in 1895 in Lancashire, England, and finally retired from the Union Pacific Coal Co.'s mines in Rock Springs, Wyo. last February. His pension, retroactive to the day he retired: $100-a-month. Said Ainscough: "God bless the day John L. Lewis was born...