Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President vetoed the Bursum Pension Bill to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of veterans of the 1812, Mexican, Civil, Indian, Spanish Wars (see Page...
...first veto message to issue from the White House during the present Administration descended upon a pension bill. This bill, sponsored by Senator Holm O. Bursum of New Mexico, was passed by both Houses during April. It was similar to a bill vetoed by President Harding...
Benito replied: "The fate of Duse, whom, a year ago, I offered a pension, so that such a great artist might not leave Italy, has affected me grievously. Immediately upon being informed of her tragic death, I telegraphed Ambassador Caetani to proceed forthwith to Pittsburgh and, on behalf of the Italian Government, make the necessary arrangements to bring the body to Italy at the cost of the State...
...Passed a pension bill increasing pensions of widows of Civil War veterans, excepting those who married after June 27, 1907. ¶Confirmed the nomination of Alfred J. Pearson to be Minister to Poland (TIME, April 7). ¶ Passed a resolution permitting the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs to erect in Washington a monument to baseball...
...clock and tomorrow evening at 8.30 the choruses of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in combination with the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Symphony Hall. The proceeds of the concert are to be devoted to the Boston Symphony Pension Fund...