Word: pensioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revision of the rules, Administration leaders took World War pension matters out of the hands of the liberal Pensions Committee, handed them to the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee (Mississippi's Rankin, chairman...
...pitiable" state of elderly Episcopal clergymen moved Bishop William Lawrence (now retired) of Massachusetts to raise $8,700,000 among U. S. Episcopalians, help found the Church Pension Fund. Treasurer of this organization today is J. P. Morgan, although the man who really runs it is dapper, twinkling, argumentative Bradford B. Locke of Princeton, its able executive vice president. Last week the Church Pension Fund held its 21st annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that...
...security problem is a big one for U. S. churches, whose care of their worn-out ministers is a large, often haphazard U. S. business. The 24 denominations of the Church Pensions Conference* have more than $171,000,000 in assets, a total annual income of $15,000,000. They pay nearly $11,000,000 a year to 38,000 clerical pensioners, widows and orphans. How much an individual pensioner gets, after retiring at around 68, depends upon how well-managed his church's pension affairs are. The Episcopal fund, first in the U. S. to be established...
...Police Chief Davis, a full-blooded strong man who liked to bait "communists" and to shoot chalk from behind his subordinates' ears with a pistol, resigned before Mayor Bowron could carry out his threat to oust him. Chief Davis explained that he was thinking of his $328 monthly pension. Mayor Bowron explained: "All in all, I cannot but feel that James E. Davis quit under fire...
Sunset pays almost no attention to such overexploited aspects of Western life as Hollywood, pension plans and college football, but goes in big for new kinds of auto trailers, mountain cabins, patios. It never touches on controversial matters like politics or labor trouble. It plugs the "how-to-do-it" angle, with simple diagrams showing how to design anything from a homespun lampshade to a barbecue oven. Its unvarying, chirpy cheerfulness grates on Eastern nerves, but is fully justified by results to date. Profits for 1938 will be approximately $25,000 as compared with a loss of $71,822 during...