Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for the first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
Retired. Dr. Anna Wessels Williams, 71, bacteriologist; on a $3,300 pension; from the assistant directorship of the New York City Health Department's laboratories; despite vigorous protests from Dr. Williams & colleagues (TIME, March 26). Reason...
...point the first, was the House's vote on the Independent Offices Appropriation. Two months ago with the House well under control it passed the original bill in the form the President wanted it. The Senate amended the measure by adding $118,000,000 for veterans' pensions and $215,000,000 for restoring the 15% Federal pay cut (TIME, March 19). If the Senate version became law, it would have nullified more than half the savings which the President made a year ago under the Economy Act. The President let the House know that he would veto...
...little German town of Perleberg some 30 years ago a lusty argument went on between a round-faced, pig-tailed girl and her practical, hard-working father. The child was determined to be a singer. The father wanted her to teach school to be sure of getting a pension in her old age. When Lotte Lehmann's singing days are done she will get a pension from the proud Vienna Opera where she is a Member of Honor. By the time she sailed for Europe this week many a hard-to-please New Yorker was convinced that hers...
From Congress last week a bill was dispatched to the White House to give Deserter Beryl McHam an honorable discharge and put him on the pension rolls. On the President's desk was a memorandum from Secretary Dern...