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...awning, you'd have to explain it to him for half an hour; tell why you wanted it on this side of the building instead of some other place." Avery also put the lid on wages, and steadfastly refused to grant such incentives as the liberal pension and profit-sharing plans of Sears ("uneconomical" is Avery's word for such frills...
...hospitals and public housing. But many Massachusetts TV owners who watched the corpulent governor keynote the Democratic National Convention were distressed at his resemblance to any cartoonist's conception of an 1890 Republican plutocrat. Other voters were angered when Dever attempted to ignore public outcry against an overgenerous pension bill for Massachusetts politicians (TIME, Sept. 15). He finally yielded to public pressure, called a special session of the legislature, which last week repealed the bill...
...paternal grandfather came from Germany and he was born in Paris, where his father was studying painting. Democrats are also whispering that Chris Herter is opposed to state-financed buses for parochial schools, which he is not; he opposes buses for such schools as Groton and Andover. The pension scandal gave Herter an issue with which to club Dever, but the effectiveness of Herter's attack is still uncertain...
...stumbles and falls flat every couple of weeks? . . . When the hand-picked heir [i.e., Stevenson] wants no part of the heirlooms, why should we? ... The 5% fees for . . . court favorites? . . . The $400 deficit that the average city family suffered in 1950? . . . The inflation that has cut savagely into . . . pension funds . . . [and] savings? . . . The record of losing our friends in Eastern Europe [and] in China...
...hours before the opening of the special session, Atkinson filed a petition before the Retirement Board for a disability pension (he said he developed a bad case of ulcers on the job), and requested annual pension...