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Snowy-haired Thomas William Barnes, 85, who runs the little Red Brick Corner Hotel, offered a free site. Bill Cook, who sent four sons off to World War II, gave $25 out of his World War I Army pension. Sergeant Billy Brown, just back from overseas, chipped in with the comment: "It's a great idea." Within an hour 100 Hamptonians had subscribed...
...Officials of the Quezon regime gave him a yacht and the use of 100-year-old Malacanan Palace, named new streets and buildings for him as fast as they were constructed. When the Philippines Congress met last autumn, after the liberation of the islands, it voted his widow a pension of 1,000 pesos a month, almost automatically...
...feel that on account of ... countless war widows and orphans ... I should waive collection of a pension . . ." the letter stated. "I cannot, in good conscience, receive ... Government assistance when so many of my less fortunate sisters and their children are not yet taken care...
Died. Bradford Brooks Locke, 54, executive vice president of the $40,000,000 Church Pension Fund (for retired Episcopalian clergymen), one of the most candidly critical but most popular citizens (though he was a Harvardman) of Princeton, N.J.; after an operation; in Princeton...
...Warren not a bit. He had campaigned and been elected as a "nonpartisan" in 1942 and he seemed determined to go merrily along his non-partisan way. To some observers this seemed politically smart. California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan...