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...quoied the Railway Pension Law as an example of a case which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional on purely projudicial grounds...
...country under General Napier on what Queen Victoria called a "punitive expedition." The little waif had an appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned the distinguished Ethiopian to court, discovered with astonishment that he could speak not a word of any Ethiopian language, made him Minister of Education...
...retire most of Steel's funded debt. That was accomplished in 1929, saving some $30,000,000 annually in fixed charges and enabling the corporation to ride out Depression without seriously depleting its treasury. Second was a vast program of plant improvement still in progress. Third was to pension off an army of aging executives, re-peopling Steel's offices with smart young men, of whom the most notable was Edward Riley Stettinius, son of the late Morgan partner. Now only 34 and vice chairman of the omnipotent finance committee, Steelman Stettinius was supposed to have been hand-picked...
...Railroad Pension Bill replacing the act declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The Government will pay direct pensions up to $120 a month by means of a 7% tax on railroad payrolls, half to be paid by the carriers and half by the employes...
...Federal Budget by 25%, President Roosevelt swept through a dazzled Congress the Economy Act of 1933, enabling him to lop an estimated $500,000,000 per year off Government expenditures. Most of this saving was obtained by separating veterans who had not been disabled in actual service from the pension rolls, by cutting all Federal salaries...