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...career. The wealth of the Phillipses which has opened to him posts which were closed to other career diplomats has also been a drawback, for they have ever found difficulty in securing adequate living quarters. In Brussels they lived for some time in the two front rooms of a pension. When Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes arrived to visit them they had to give up their own beds and find others at the back of the house. Later they rented the palatial Hôtel d'Assche which had been the home of King Albert and Queen Elisabeth...
...Examiners answered Miss Freistater's appeal: "Teachers should be acceptable hygienic models for their pupils in matters of weight." Fat people have "relatively higher mortality and morbidity rates than persons of normal weight.'' Too many Rose Freistaters would "constitute a drain on the teachers' pension fund." Convinced that no diet could save Miss Freistater from expanding, sooner or later, to her normal 182, Board Chairman Henry Levy explained: "Teachers must climb stairs, take part in fire drills and be able to handle all real school emergencies. ..." Last week Commissioner Graves fixed Dec. 11 for a hearing...
...best of his ability with decrees applying in detail the broad "Nurnberg Laws" (TIME, Sept. 23). So eager is the Realmleader to get every last Jew out of the government bureaucracy as quickly and easily as possible that Jews still holding State jobs last week will be pensioned off at full salary until the age at which they would normally have to retire, after which they will receive the normal pension to the end of their lives...
...Amen! Amen!" answered many & many a man and woman who, passionately convinced that it would be possible to pay every U. S. citizen over 60 pension of $200 per month (TIME, Jan. 14), had traveled to Chicago for the first national convention of the Townsend Clubs...
...Episcopal Church Pension Fund, founded in 1917, has prospered well, increased its assets from $8,500,000 to $32,000,000, largely through good management and the fact that among its best friends has been J. P. Morgan. Last week the less-publicized Presbyterian Church Pension Board revealed that it, too, has friends in high places. Its secretary, Rev. Henry B. Master of Philadelphia, announced that the Board's assets have increased from $5,000,000 in 1910 to $35,000,000 today. On its rolls are 96% of all Presbyterian ministers and missionaries, its retired beneficiaries receiving...