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Pension projects poured in-and no Congressman who had just voted himself a cheap life pension could well refuse constituents their turn at the trough. Already the Senate had voted pensions of about $750 each to 2,276 civilians (or their widows) who worked on the Panama Canal 28 years ago. The Senate had just approved Jesse Jones's latest war baby: a billion dollars to give private property owners in the U.S. and its territories free insurance (up to $15,000) against war damage. Pending in the Senate Finance Committee were two House-passed bills loosening and upping...
Only the maverick American Veterans' Association-tax-conscious veterans who want pensions confined to soldiers who really got hurt-refused to jump into the trough. Stormed its National Commander Robert B. Luchars: "[The scheme comes from] big-pension lobbyists . . . whose tears flow ... at the suffering of training-camp heroes who never smelled gunpowder...
...made him cough; drinks beer (not much) and wines. He is a bouncing, lusty, easy-smiling man, lighting into his work each morning with something of the same sort of heavy, rolling eagerness that his big Hampshire porkers show in running for the day's first trough. He has a rich country sense of humor, loves long, involved, chronicle jokes, and has the heartiest laugh in the Cabinet-a booming roar that makes other people chuckle all the way out the White House lobby...
...megacycles-or about 50 centimetres from trough to trough of the radio wave...
...week's revival is 49-year-old Ben Lindheimer, Chicago real-estate operator who grew up within hollering distance of the original Washington Park. When he was seven, little Benny began to hang around the track, was given odd jobs such as checking the horses at the drinking trough on Derby day. Five years ago, Lindheimer's persistent hobby got the better of him. Hearing that Colonel Matt Winn* wanted to sell Washington Park (gradually being overshadowed by Chicago's newer, swankier Arlington Park), Lindheimer bought controlling interest in the track, became its managing director...