Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand or more recently discovered by Professor Hart and Mr. Henry Woodhouse, a collector in Washington, D. C. It appears that Mrs. Mary Ball Washington, mother of the president, applied to the legislature a short while after the Revolution, and claimed that she was in need of a pension and certainly merited it, as the mother of the patriot. Her son, then president, was greatly embarrassed we have a letter which he wrote to his sister, vehemently protesting that their mother was well able to take care of herself on her substantial income. Among the letters just unearthed...
Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was discussed but never voted...
...Pensions are customarily granted widows of U. S. Presidents and Vice Presidents by special act of Congress. Mrs. Roosevelt receives a $5,000 pension. The $5,000 pension bill for Mrs. Marshall, passed by the Senate, is now pending in the louse. No pension has been voted Mrs. Wilson, who, wealthy, has asked that none )e given...
...long lists of pension bills which daily fatten the Congressional Record are largely for military veterans, their relicts and heirs, or for retired Federal employes, in cases technically irregular under the tension laws...
...village of Latti in the Caucasian mountains, last fortnight, Henri Barbusse, French author, discovered a peasant named Nikolai Andreyevich Shapkofski who has a social insurance card showing that he is 146 years old and entitled to draw a pension of 50 rubles ($27.50) a month. Peasant Shapkofski has only one tooth left and therefore does not eat as heartily as he did a few years ago. But he still drinks plenty of wine. His last child, a daughter, was born when he was 120 years...