Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul von Hindenburg" he was called before the War, when he was on the army pension list. "Hoch! Hoch!! Hoch der President!!!" roared the crowds last week. Dutifully, imperturbably, impressively the old soldier rode to the site of the Leipsic Spring Fair...
...Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair is the widow of a Washington attorney, who left her no money...
...Passed a Mothers' Pension Bill for the relief of widows and orphans of the District of Columbia...
There is no law requiring it, but it has become customary for Congress to pass a law granting a pension of $5,000 a year to the widow of a President. Last week a Congressman from Rhode Island, Richard S. Aldrich, introduced a bill for a $5,000 pension to Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, saying it was about time that a similar provision was made for widows of Vice Presidents...
This Congressman Richard S. Aldrich hardly titillates the memory of the average man today. Yet he might well have gone to his brother-in-law and asked for $5,000 as a pension for Mrs. Marshall, his brother-in-law is John D. Rockefeller Jr. But his sister's husband and his sister's father-in-law, potent though they be, were not more noted than his father in the latter's day. For his father was Senator from Rhode Island, Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, one of the giants in the Senate two decades ago. Nelson W. Aldrich, who began life...