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Interlude. In London, James Percy Knight, 67, retired as elevator man at the House of Commons, received extra pay but no pension because for 45 years he had ranked only as a temporary employe...
...Secretary of State because of ill health, landed on another Government payroll. As long as he was working for the Government, ex-Captain Hull of the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (which saw service as a pacification force in Cuba) had declined to accept his over-age-65 pension. But after his resignation, Hull applied, now receives his $75 a month along with almost 130,000 other Spanish-American War veterans...
...issue there appeared an erroneous statement regarding pension for the loss of a leg, which follows: "e.g., $30 a month...
...Pension for the loss of a leg is paid on the basis of the degree of disability suffered by the veteran . . . ranging from $11.50 a month for a 10% disability to $115 a month for a 100% disability. In addition to this disability pension, a statutory award of $35 a month is paid for the loss of a limb...
...refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...