Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total wages since the plan went into effect. This figures out as 17?, or a profit of 12?. Asking for it in a "lump sum," Motorman Ackerman announced: "I'll blow it on my friends...
Adding the physical to the metaphysical in its philosophy of life, Harvard steps out ahead again with the announced future establishment of a dating bureau, which will for a nominal sum furnish intellectual pabulum for the undergraduates, said pabulum to be called from the various bluestocking institutions of the immediate environs...
...that," he replied. He then frankly complained to reporters that he was leaving a $9,000 a year job for a pension just one-sixth as large. "I can hardly rely on the Government's retirement pay to support my family. I am being given the munificent sum of $1,500 a year. I cannot understand why Congress fails to realize that the men of the Secret Service who occupy hazardous positions are entitled to adequate retirement considerations." Retiring Chief Moran, long famed for his lack of communicability, said he might eke out his diminished income by writing...
...collection as a "nucleus" for an institution to be called "The National Art Gallery." He proposed the erection of a gallery on Washington's Mall, on plans for which he had set Architect John Russell Pope working a year ago. For constructing the gallery, Mr. Mellon offered the sum of $9,000,000, promised an endowment fund for maintaining a staff and providing for new acquisitions. Congress would have to appropriate funds for the building's upkeep, he said...