Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give Kuchel seniority over other freshmen Senators, who will take office on Jan. 3. In so doing, Nixon is cutting his term of congressional service just short of six years, and abandoning chances of drawing a congressional pension. Kuchel is accepting a salary cut-from $16,000 a year to $12,500-to take his new post in the Senate. Without diluting his loyalty to Governor Warren, Kuchel is also accepting new political fealty. "I am now," he said last week, "a middle-of-the-road Eisenhower Republican...
...last week, after his old-age pension had come in, Adrien Claude paid off his last few tiny debts. "I am too old for Christmas," he told a friend as he gave him the few francs he owed. He went up to his chilly garret apartment, put his cat outside the door, sealed the windows tight and put his shoes by the fireplace, where all good French children put their shoes on Christmas Eve, hoping they will be filled by Father Christmas. Then he lit the stove in the airless room, lay down on the bed and waited for death...
...everything she owned. She escaped to the south of France with only some photographs of Tolstoy, several sketches given her by Rodin and the clothes on her back, and went to live at Banyulssur-Mer near her friend, the sculptor, Aristide Maillol. The only instrument in her pension was a battered old upright piano. Late one night, when everyone else was in bed, she sat down and played until morning. When the proprietress came down, Landowska inquired whether her playing had disturbed her. "But no," she replied. "I do not sleep well since the war, but your banging...
Under the present system, one/employee who has worked as a janitor for 16 years will receive only $28 per month. With Social Security, however, his total pension will be higher than the $30 he would have received under the University's "minimum pension" plan...
...long statement asking for a general revision of pension allotments, Mulvihill stated, . . . "decency cries out for us to begin this task at once and to revise our attitudes towards the employment of older workers...