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Veterans' pension bills can be killed but, like old soldiers, they never die. Last week the mammoth of all pension schemes, killed by the Senate Finance Committee last year, was back again, as healthy and hungry as ever...
...scheme is so big that it takes two bills to hold it. One bill would give pensions ($12-$56 a month) to widows and children of all World War I veterans -not just those who died from wounds, but those who died in bed ten or 20 years afterward. For good measure, the bill would pension dead veterans' parents...
Alumni, casting sentiment to the winds, tried to force Old Zup to resign, even offered him a $6,000-a-year pension. When he refused, they tried to have him ousted. Last summer, in a bitter showdown, Zuppke won over Athletic Director Wendell Wilson, head of the anti-Zuppke faction. Since then, it has been common campus gossip that the little Dutchman, his honor vindicated, would resign at this season...
...textile-wealthy New England family, he attracted attention outside the church as a phenomenal fund raiser. He got $5,000,000 for Harvard from George F. Baker, raised $1,000,000 for Wellesley, $1,000,000 for increased Harvard teaching salaries, raised $8,500,000 to start the Church Pension Fund for retired Episcopal clergymen. He became Bishop at 42, served actively for 33 years. His son, the Rt. Rev. William Appleton Lawrence, is Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts...
...Bishop supplied initial drive for a church pension fund to take care of the clergy. This fund is still operating, and is taken for granted today. During the last war he was Chairman of the Army and Navy Commission, which dealt with the appointment and oversight of chaplains...