Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give Congressmen higher salaries, more money for adequate staffs, a retirement pension after 55 ($1,000 per year of service with a maximum...
...confidence, disabuse him of any notion that he is useless or unattractive. One of its most effective devices is demonstrations of skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...
...Minneapolis, the discovery of a 10,000-vote tabulation error put snaggle-toothed William J. Gallagher, 69, a retired street sweeper, and Henry George, single-taxer, into the House. By sweeping out Richard Pillsbury Gale, 44, a sense-making Republican internationalist, Gallagher will trade a $25.48 a month city pension for a $10,000-a-year...
...years to write a French dictionary, Johnson boomed: "Sir, forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." The Dictionary took nine years, and was such a success that the Government rewarded him with a pension of £300 a year...
Presidential vetoes only slowed the tide. When the Pension Bill of 1890 was passed, President Harrison urged the Commissioner of Pensions to be "liberal with the boys." The Commissioner, an ex-corporal, promised to "drive a six-mule team through the Treasury." Within a year the annual pension outlay had jumped...