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...February as the first "Stakhanovite Month" were abruptly canceled. Shrewd Alexei Stakhanov, who has said frankly that in the U. S. he would be beaten up by fellow workers for what he has done (TIME, Dec. 16), now receives as a holder of the Order of Lenin a lifelong pension and a pass permitting him to travel free twice a year on Soviet railways, boats, airplanes, trams and busses...
...Alfred Church Lane, 72, Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...
...Secondly, he was prompted by personal motives. Manchuria was his ancestral home, and it was only natural that he should be specially interested in what was happening in this region. Moreover, every undertaking given to the Manchu Imperial Family in the Abdication Agreement had been wantonly violated. The pension to be paid to him by the Republic had been canceled. His private property had been confiscated. He had been treated with studied insolence by the Kuomintang. And the ancestral tombs had been violated and rifled, without any attempt to bring the perpetrators to book or to secure the recovery...
...increase over fiscal 1929. Receipts for fiscal 1937 he set at $5,654,000,000, more revenue than the U. S. Government ever had in any year except 1920. This huge expectation arose from the following estimates: $547,000,000 from the New Deal's social security, railway pension and Coal Act taxes; $547,000,000 from the New Deal's processing taxes;* $354,000,000 from customs; $2,103,000,000 from miscellaneous internal revenue (of which liquor taxes make up one quarter and tobacco taxes almost an equal share); $160,000,000 from minor sources...
...percent of the nation in favor of pension voted $40 and $60 a month for single persons and couples. In the colleges the average figures were...