Word: pensioners
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Died. Martin L. Davey, 61. who left a million-dollar tree-surgery business to become Democratic Governor of Ohio (1935-39) because "I get a thrill out of it"; of coronary thrombosis; in Kent. Ohio. His administration, marked by protracted wranglings with New Dealers over pension politics, ended in his own whopping defeat by Republican John Bricker...
These figures, representing pensions only, do not include the costs of hospitalization, administration, rehabilitation. To pension, care for and heal all the soldiers & sailors of all their wars so far, the U.S. people have paid out a total of $30 billion...
After 134 years, the U.S. paid the last installment on the bill for the War of 1812. Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 88, daughter of a soldier who fought in the Battle of New Orleans, and the last U.S. citizen eligible for an 1812 pension, died last week in Independence...
Snowy-haired Thomas William Barnes, 85, who runs the little Red Brick Corner Hotel, offered a free site. Bill Cook, who sent four sons off to World War II, gave $25 out of his World War I Army pension. Sergeant Billy Brown, just back from overseas, chipped in with the comment: "It's a great idea." Within an hour 100 Hamptonians had subscribed...
Died. Bradford Brooks Locke, 54, executive vice president of the $40,000,000 Church Pension Fund (for retired Episcopalian clergymen), one of the most candidly critical but most popular citizens (though he was a Harvardman) of Princeton, N.J.; after an operation; in Princeton...