Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty months ago, with the fresh prestige of a landslide of popular approval, Franklin Roosevelt gave the mightiest display of Presidential power in recent years. At one stroke he forced Congress to cut veterans' pensions by $300,000,000, to cut the pay of all Government employes 15%. But Congress would not remain permanently cowed. When it met again last spring it restored over Presidential veto not only a good part of the pension cuts, but one-third of the employes' pay cut as of Feb. 15, 1934, and another third as of July 1. The President was empowered...
...pension laws and unemployment "insurance." with the Federal share of the latter's cost possibly financed by a tax on payrolls. (For news of old-age pensions among the States...
Though unwilling to deny that Congress might legally set up a pension system applying strictly to workers whose jobs took them back & forth across State lines, Judge Wheat allowed himself to doubt whether any compulsory system could retain the incentives to gratitude and loyalty found in voluntary systems. Mightily offended was his sense of justice at inclusion in the present system of some 143,000 workers who had lost their jobs in the year before it was adopted. "Some of these men," snapped he, "were dismissed for the good of the service. I can see no reasonable relation between giving...
Equally repugnant to Judge Wheat was the Act's provision allowing any worker hired by a railroad to count toward his pension all previous railroad service. Declared he: "To require the plaintiffs to contribute huge sums of money to be devoted to the payment of pensions and annuities based upon services long since completed and fully paid for seems to me to take their property without due process...
...Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl of Harringford offers her protection and a house just off Belgrave Square. His son. the Marquis of Sheere, also falls under Melanie's spell. Both Earl and Regent want something "a little less binding" than marriage...