Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing Brahms' "Song of destiny" and the Bach motet, "I Wrestle and Pray," Davison triumphantly pulled open the stage curtains revealing Karl Mack, the awesome conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Muck, delighted with the performance, invited the groups to sing the pieces with the orchestra at the 1917 Pension Concert in Symphony Hall...
...under the present conductor of the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch, the Glee Club and choral society will never again perform pieces in the same grandiose manner to which they became accustomed under Koussevitzky. The change came in 1950, shortly before they were to assist the BSO in a Pension Fund performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...
...York City 12,000 members of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International Union (A.F.L.) dropped their demand for an increase in employer-financed pension benefits, asked that the $1,000,000 be diverted to an industry promotion fund to perk up declining hat sales...
...likes to find a stain on his family's honor, least of all an old French infantryman who has given the 30 best years of his life to his country. Gaston Le Torch had suffered enough wounds to rate a decent pension, was married to a sensible, loving wife who honored him for a missing eye and a severed thumb, and had philosophically tucked his handful of medals into an old cigar box. With nothing else to occupy him after World War I, Gaston began, like many another retired hero, to run down his family's history. Thus...
UNION INVASION of the business world by using pension funds to buy into companies is progressing. A.F.L.'s International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has just paid out $1,920,000 for 16,000 shares and control of the American Standard Life Insurance Co., and Dave Beck's Teamsters, who invested $1,500,000 in Fruehauf Trailer Co., then bought $1,000,000 worth of Montgomery Ward stock, now plans to spend still another million for 12,100 more shares of Ward stock...