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...limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute of his 500,000 Moro subjects, plus his pension from the Philippine Government, plus his land rent from British North Borneo Co. With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted...
...original arrival he let students haul him up the road to the President's house in a dusty rattletrap buggy. Then able "Fat" Peirce dropped a word of his own. Having pushed Kenyon's scholarship up to the standards of Carnegie Foundation for Teaching, thereby winning a pension for all Kenyon faculty men over 70, he announced that he "would not like to form an exception to this desirable arrangement," that he would retire next year...
...vote of 271-10-41 cited Dr. Francis E. Townsend-who refused to testify before a House committee investigating his old age pension scheme (TIME, June 1)- for contempt. The House, however, did not choose to make a political martyr of Dr. Townsend and two of his aides cited with him. Instead of trying them itself, the House shunted their case along to the District of Columbia courts...
...votes to a Machenite Fundamentalist, 251 to a Chicago preacher who was supposed to represent the rank & file of the ministry, 508 to an administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives affluently on Philadelphia's Main Line, attends the swankest Presbyterian Church, at Bryn Mawr. Conservative in theology, he has never been...
...provision for living in idleness at the expense of the government for the rest of your life . . . A quick glance at the records of the Revolutionary War will show any Doubting Thomas that many of the states and the Continental Congress had to guarantee the soldiers a bonus and pension for life before they would engage in the war. And if you are still unconvinced I need only add that George Washington, the father of his country, and Abraham Lincoln, the son, were both advocates of such a policy in the wars that occurred when they were Commanders-in-Chief...