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...dedicated throughout to "An American Hero." Inspired by Jacare's feat, four messenger boys of the Telegrafo Nacional planned to walk the same distance from Fortaleza to Rio to ask President Vargas for a better wage. But what would have pleased Jacare most was that the first pension won for the jangadeiros by his efforts goes to his wife and nine children...
Once a year in the spring, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Boston Symphony pool their talents, and give a Pension Fund Concert that for many is the highlight of Boston's musical season. The bulk of these concerts has usually been one of the great religious choral works, simply because the Latin biblical and liturgical texts with their unity of feeling, their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program...
...Robert Noble, onetime promoter of a California pension plan ("$25 every Monday morning"), and Ellis O. Jones, chief of the isolationist National Copperheads, were picked up for sedition last December, soon freed. Francis Biddle said then: "Free speech as such ought not to be restricted." Last week the State of California accused Jones and Noble of criminal libel. In a Friends of Progress publication they had written that General Douglas MacArthur, when he moved from Bataan to Australia, "just ran out in the dead of night. ..." Führer Noble fumed in Los Angeles County jail: "I was amazed...
...House, apparently nobody had been present when the pension bill passed without a recorded vote. Papers back home were flooded with honest-I-never-dunnit letters from Congressmen explaining that they had been ill, at the dentist's, out to lunch, writing a speech, carrying the burden of the war. This week the House would get a chance to vote on the repealer. The record would show that little brown pixies had sneaked into the Cham ber, passed pensions while Congress was away, or snoozing...
Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "The morale of the people is good when they are busy, excellent when they are very busy and poor to middling when they have nothing to do but think about the morale of someone else." In Congress, buck-passing the pension bill while Singapore fell, morale was very poor indeed...