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...shelter. To keep people happy, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper announced plans for portable cinemas against dreary winter evenings. The Arts Theatre Club and ballets moved their performances to the lunch hour. Winston Churchill each day perused particulars of civilian casualties and property damage. He accelerated systems of pension and relief, and marshaled 2,200 doctors and nurses against epidemics...
...promises to Labor, also obliquely put, were no less emphatic. "We must look forward to certain definite things in the near future," said he. Those things were: 1) broadening of social security; 2 ) unemployment insurance for more workers; 3) an improved old-age-pension system and increased pensions...
...supposition that married men will be exempt from the draft; but everywhere marriage-license records were broken. In Cleveland someone started a rumor and Cupid became cupidity. "Is it true," asked young women in a flood of phone calls, "that a war veteran's widow will get no pension if she marries after...
...when Warren moves his papers to the red brick Old Pension Office Building on Judiciary Square, he will take a post which demands all the painstaking concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire...