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...little conservative. Last week Justice Owen Josephus Roberts proved that he was born on the borderline. Having voted on the gold clause cases with the Supreme Court Liberals (TIME, Feb. 25), last week he voted with the Conservatives. Result: a 5-to-4 decision declaring the Railway Pension Law, first "social security" act of the New Deal, unconstitutional...
...enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives . . . that in view of the generous benefits accorded by the Government to veterans of the World War . . . it is hereby expressly declared to be the policy of Congress that there should not be any general pension laws enacted for the veterans of the World War or their dependents...
...John Steven McGroarty, a newcomer of an-other calibre. He is a 72-year-old newspaper columnist from Tujunga, Calif, (publicized as California's poet laureate) whose capacity for troubling the House lies purely in the fact that he is the legislative general for Dr. Townsend and his pension plan...
...conditioned reflex in dogs. Only Nobelist in the sciences Russia has had for three decades, old Dr. Pavlov does as he pleases, can bark with impunity: "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists" A government of Communists gently pooh-poohs him, hands him an institute, a pension, endowments...
...correspondent of the London Times always seemed to be a munitions salesman for Vickers, and vice versa. There was also the clergyman-stockholder with the loud, ironic laugh at many of Sir Herbert's statements-not-withstanding the fact that the Church of England's Clergy Pension Institution owns more Vickers shares than the Chairman himself...