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...their first flush of sympathy for the buxom young widow of murdered Chancellor Dollfuss, the new Austrian Government gave her a pension, understood to be for life. Last week Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, devout, severe and thrifty, let Austrians know that if the Widow Dollfuss marries again her pension stops...
Protected in any case are the chubby Dollfuss children, Rudolf and Eva. On the death or remarriage of their mother they will receive half her pension until they...
Since their last meeting as members of the Association of Railway Executives, grave matters had arisen. The Railway Pension Bill had been passed, pay cuts had been restored. They listened in silence while committees reported that payments under the pension bill would add $66,000,000 to their operating costs, the restoration of pay cuts on July 1 another $156,000,000, and increases in materials and equipment prices still another $137,000,000?a grand total of $359,000,000. Newshawks soon learned that they were considering an increase in freight rates to offset these costs. A terse, typewritten...
...Marietta Bishop was being so well cared for by her Daughter Myrtle. For two and a half years Myrtle had given them news of the old lady, had made them write her notes, had trudged to the post-office every month to collect her mother's $40 Civil War pension. When Myrtle arrived for the 30th time for the pension, the postmaster decided to walk back to Mother Bishop's with her. He found part of Mother Bishop cremated in a fruit jar, part of her stuck in a trunk, all of Mother Bishop dead two and a half years...
...Savio is a widower and enjoys a small pension for the loss of two sons during the war. He has six children, five of whom live by themselves, each giving him some small assistance. The sixth is an unmarried girl, unemployed, who lives with her parent. Pays his rent regularly. Is of good conduct...