Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breakfast diplomacy, again had a picked group of Senators and Representatives at his matutinal board. His object, as at his other breakfasts lately, was to impress Congress through its leaders with the necessity of cutting down appropriations, however worthy. Among those present: Senator Norbeck, chairman of the Committee on Pensions (there was a $19,000,000 Spanish War Veterans' Pension Bill pending); Mr. Snell, Chairman of the House Committee on Rules (which has power to block much legislation); several members of the House Committee on Agriculture (which is dealing with expensive farm relief measures...
This great fund, will assure every worker in the church annually a sufficient sum to live on. Widows will get one-half the husband's pension, with a minimum of $300; orphans $100 each until they reach 21 years...
...Passed numerous omnibus pension bills...
...went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets...
...recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently indicated its conception of the validity of her marriage (1918) to Carol, by declaring it annulled (1919) and granting her a modest pension. Mme. Lambrino's lawyer, Maitre Albert Salmon, has however advanced the theory that this annulment was "illegal" and known to be such by all concerned, including the Roumanian Government. Said Mme. Lambrino tearfully last week: "Only for dynastic reasons did I accept the second marriage contracted by my husband with...