Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Green was the chief stumbling block to a reunion of labor. According to one published plan, the new president of accoupled labor would be A.F. of L.'s Secretary-Treasurer George Meany; Mr. Green would be turned out to pasture on a $20,000-a-year pension; Machiavellian Mr. Lewis would get a vice-presidency; Mr. Murray, to whom the whole thing came as a complete surprise, and who had good reason to believe he was in the middle of a squeeze play, would be offered the secretary-treasurer...
Veterans' pension bills can be killed but, like old soldiers, they never die. Last week the mammoth of all pension schemes, killed by the Senate Finance Committee last year, was back again, as healthy and hungry as ever...
...scheme is so big that it takes two bills to hold it. One bill would give pensions ($12-$56 a month) to widows and children of all World War I veterans -not just those who died from wounds, but those who died in bed ten or 20 years afterward. For good measure, the bill would pension dead veterans' parents...
...other bill sets up a $40-a-month pension for all veterans over 65, unless they are making too much money to need it. The New York Times's description: "A universal Townsend plan for veterans and their relatives...
Only the maverick American Veterans' Association-tax-conscious veterans who want pensions confined to soldiers who really got hurt-refused to jump into the trough. Stormed its National Commander Robert B. Luchars: "[The scheme comes from] big-pension lobbyists . . . whose tears flow ... at the suffering of training-camp heroes who never smelled gunpowder...