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...officer & gentleman. Author of these charges was a reserve lieutenant named James O. Smith Jr., who was Colonel Giffin's adjutant in 1936 and 1937, when they were assigned to CCC duty in upstate New York. Maximum penalty was dismissal, disgrace, loss of a $3,000 annual pension for Colonel Giffin, who will have 30 years of service and the right to retire next March...
...paid his $1.75 poll tax because "no sensible man" would lay out money to vote for politicians. To fulfill his campaign promises, Governor-Nominate'' O'Daniel must find $42,000,000 a year to give every Texan over 65 a $30-per-month pension, and bring tax-wary industry flocking into Texas. Said he: "I'll just take it from the folks that...
Last week, Samuel Insull made newspaper copy for the last time. Old (78), broken in spirit, for the past year virtually an exile in Europe, living on his pension of $21,000-a-year granted by still-sound de-Insullated operating companies, he returned to Paris from a brief visit to the U. S. just in time to watch France's Bastille Day celebration. Few days later, while his wife was shopping, he stepped down into the metro subway on his way to lunch. There, alone in the Place de la Concorde Station, his tired heart suddenly stopped...
Died. Caroline Poulder King, 88, last surviving widow of a veteran of the War of 1812 (Private Darius King who served 54 days); in Cheektowaga, N. Y. She married King, then 73, in 1869, drew $14,149 pension (total 1812 War pensions: $43,216,480.57) after he died 17 years later...
...given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since 1933, second only...