Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manning and John L. Murphy. Last fortnight the Congressional Record printed a letter from Daniel Manning's son (Leonard T. Manning of New York City): "All he [Inventor Manning] got from the Government for his 40 years of service and . . . the improved 1903 Springfield rifle was a small pension from the date of his retirement in October 1926 to the time of his death in May 1927, a mere eight months. ... I believe Mr. Garand should be paid...
...Pavlo Petrovich Skoropadsky, 67, of Berlin, an amiable old schemer who was Germany's Ukrainian puppet in 1918 (TIME, June 30). Since his brief puppet leadership ended with Germany's World War I defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...
...Scores of highway, rivers & harbors, waterworks and pension pork-barrel bills...
...Beautiful People has a boozy, poetical father (Curtis Cooksey) living with an adolescent son and daughter in a decaying mansion on a San Francisco hill. They are supported by a monthly pension check mistakenly addressed tor a dead man. The daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York...
...annual mass this year, the Glee Club and Choral Society will give the Missa Solemnis in Symphony Hall this Sunday. All proceeds of the production will go to the pension fund for retired musicians...