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...friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques. Her greatest asset was what she remembered of the scandal-riddled House of Habsburg but on that asset, despite the incessant wheedlings of publishers' agents, she has never...
Admirably acted, carefully produced and for the most part intelligently and honestly written, Awake and Sing! seems to have unexpectedly backfired on Playwright Odets. His triumphal ending, with Brother Ralph profiting by Grandfather's insurance and Sister Hennie and Axelrod running away to Bermuda on his pension, depends ironically on two prime financial usufructs of the economic system which Playwright Odets has spent two hours browbeating...
Social Security. Slowly ripening in the House Ways & Means Committee was Franklin Roosevelt's tripartite proposal for 1) unemployment insurance; 2) old age annuities; 3) Federal subsidies to states that pension their aged indigent. Congressional enthusiasm over it did not run high...
...childhood in Perleberg, Germany, was plain. She remembers red plush furniture, a feeble-minded grandfather in an embroidered velvet cap, an understanding mother who on Christmas day played Santa Claus. Her father, a small-town official, was determined that his daughter should be a school-teacher because schoolteachers get pensions. Lotte Lehmann is already assured of a pension-from the proud Vienna Opera of which she is a Member of Honor...
...same time the House Ways and Means committee reported that unless the old-age pension bill was amended so that the federal government should pay the whole amount of such pensions, instead of half with the states, it would put an intolerable strain on state finances. The assumption is that no expenditures would strain the national treasury, or at least, that the political repercussions to such expenditures are not so great as they would be in individual states...