Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Carens has the wrong impression. Goalie Kerr appeared on TIME'S cover precisely because the appearance of a new topflight goal tender is more newsworthy than the continuance of a veteran who has been top-flight for ten years...
...House of Representatives for months a great race has been quietly but breathlessly going on between two committees. The contest is to see who can outstrip whom in helping The Veteran help himself to the U. S. Treasury. The committees: 1) Pensions, headed by South Carolina's Allard Henry Casque (pronounced Gaski), whose own military experience is limited to honorary membership in the United Spanish War Veterans, and 2) the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, whose chairman is Mississippi's loud, bushy-haired John Elliott Rankin. Congressman Rankin lists himself in his official biography...
Until last year law required that a World War veteran be at least 30% disabled for his wife to get a pension when he died. John Elliott Rankin proposed that this disability requirement be lowered to 10%, so more widows would get more money. Franklin Roosevelt reluctantly compromised on 20% rather than face another fight with veteran-conscious Congressmen...
...proposition that they substitute Sears Roebuck (advt.) vacuum cleaners for the traditional brooms, the Crimson curlers under the leadership of Caspar W. Berger are embarking on a series of strenuous secret practice sessions in an unused wing of Widener in preparation for Saturday, when they cross brooms with a veteran Kendal Home for the aged aggregation...
Coaching the Harvard bristel-men is Elmina McSweepstraw, veteran biddy who has swept an unidentified entry in Lowell for seven years without removing any dirt...