Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after a second look at the bill, Republican Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan complained that the alleged saving was a "deception." Camouflaged in the fine print of the bill was an unmentioned provision loosening up the rules on pensions for widows and orphans. Under present law, the needy relicts of World War I veterans-but not those of other foreign wars-may claim pensions, even if the husband's death was in no way connected with his military service. The House bill extends the same privilege to widows and children of 205,684 veterans of World...
...Four Present or Prospective Republics...
Though only 30,000 strong (among a French Saharan population of 840,000), the Mozabites occupy a crucial area, so rich is it in oil. The descendants of a persecuted splinter group of Moslems that took refuge in their present inaccessible home back in the Middle Ages, they do not allow their wives to unveil even for the dentist. But they have been shrewd in jumping aboard the oil bandwagon, and French officials estimate that there are already at least a score of franc billionaires among the Mozabites. "France never has and never will tamper with your faith and customs...
...only so long as he can keep his enemies at bay. The enemies are many, the proliferation of pretenders spawned by his multi-wived Moslem relatives. But on his side the Imam has absolute powers : Macbeth's castle and the Borgia palaces were holiday resorts compared with present-day Yemen, where ten of the current Imam's brothers and most of his dozen sons have died violently in family infighting and palace intrigues...
...profit for taking a chance on a newcomer; furthermore, he says, Shirley was amply repaid, got bonuses and was treated royally. "I went up to her on the set during the week of her birthday," Wallis recalls, "and asked: 'If I was going to give you a birthday present, what would you like?' Shirley said, kiddingly, 'An MG.' " Next day Wallis handed her the keys. "She broke up and cried and laughed. And that cost more than nickels and dimes...