Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history. So lightly held are they in the land to which they have given their lives and whose civil servants they have been for a generation, that recently the First Commonwealth Assembly, pressed for funds, voted to liquidate the Philippine Bureau of Education's teachers pension fund. This meant that the Thomasites would not get the retirement pensions toward which they had been contributing 3% of their meagre salaries (ranging from $900 to $1,500) for 35 years...
...Passed the Rankin bill which would restore pension benefits to some 2,000 veterans suffering from the results of venereal diseases contracted during the World War; the Voorhis bill which would permit some 48,000 World War veterans to extend expiring War insurance policies for five years. Sent them to the Senate...
...drawn that the Duchess of Windsor and her children have full princely rank and the style of Royal Highness. This week the Duke, after intimations that the Rothschilds would like him to pay some rent for their castle in Austria (TIME. March 29), moved out. Journeying to a former pension or boarding house on the shore of Lake St. Wolfgang, where Edward of Wales and Mrs. Simpson stayed happily for a time in 1935, the Duke took up residence. He was obsequiously conducted from car to boarding house by officials of the British diplomatic service, one of whom held...
...Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings & Profit Sharing Pension Fund through which the workers have become the largest single stockholding group in Sears, Roebuck & Co. (9.2%). Inaugurated in 1916 by the late great Julius Rosenwald, the Fund has paid out $45,204,000 to a total of 65,000 employes who paid in only $10,042,000. Company contributions and stock dividends...
...Noel was not cut out to be any kind of soldier. He fell down and bumped his head, was sent to a hospital. After some weeks in an epileptic ward he was kindly discharged with a temporary pension. Says he: "I was not in the least scarred by the war. It was little more to me at the time than a dully oppressive background. . . ." But it was a great relief to him to get back to the theatre and real life...