Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief. To prevent friction and quarrels the distinction had to be conferred on some passive, easy-going general who would permit caustic, hard-headed Ludendorff, a neurasthenic with a will as well as muscles of steel, to have his own way. . . . Old General Paul von Hindenburg was on the pension list. . . . He would not disturb or irritate the inordinately egotistical and self-assured Ludendorff. . . . Hindenburg was appointed Commander-in-Chief...
...next to the last day of his term Mayor Hylan resigned in order to get a pension of $4,205.99 a year. He however went to his office next day while the President of the Board of Aldermen was technically Mayor. Then Mr. Hylan made his adieux to the City Hall. For 30 days, he said, he would rest and consider, then he would announce what his future would be. At the inauguration of Mayor Walker, speaking by invitation, he said...
...Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act. Hereafter, under certain restrictions, widows will receive a pension of 10 shillings ($2.40) a week, and orphans up to the age of 14 will receive 7 shillings ($1.68) a week. These pensions will all be payable on Tuesday, "the most convenient day for the postoffice to make payments...
...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., declared last week that he is ready to insure workers against unemployment. He said: "Death first. We took care of that. And then accident and disease. We took care of them. A dependent old age. That too is being taken care of by pension systems managed by our company. And now there is unemployment. We must take care of that...
...park before the Pension Office ("Judiciary Square") a crowd gathered, and in the Plaza San Martin at Buenos Aires, another crowd. Each crowd looked up to a great equestrian statue and saw just what the other crowd saw, the same horse, the same man. The crowd at Buenos Aires then looked to a platform and saw President Alvear and Ambassador Peter Augustus Jay; and the crowd at Washington saw President Coolidge and Ambassador Honorio Pueyrredon. Before the crowd and before the replica of the statue of Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Mr. Coolidge exclaimed...