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...point the first, was the House's vote on the Independent Offices Appropriation. Two months ago with the House well under control it passed the original bill in the form the President wanted it. The Senate amended the measure by adding $118,000,000 for veterans' pensions and $215,000,000 for restoring the 15% Federal pay cut (TIME, March 19). If the Senate version became law, it would have nullified more than half the savings which the President made a year ago under the Economy Act. The President let the House know that he would veto...
...little German town of Perleberg some 30 years ago a lusty argument went on between a round-faced, pig-tailed girl and her practical, hard-working father. The child was determined to be a singer. The father wanted her to teach school to be sure of getting a pension in her old age. When Lotte Lehmann's singing days are done she will get a pension from the proud Vienna Opera where she is a Member of Honor. By the time she sailed for Europe this week many a hard-to-please New Yorker was convinced that hers...
From Congress last week a bill was dispatched to the White House to give Deserter Beryl McHam an honorable discharge and put him on the pension rolls. On the President's desk was a memorandum from Secretary Dern...
...more behind your scenes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." His letter to Lord Chesterfield, "thanking" him for his belated interest in Johnson's Dictionary, is a masterpiece of dignified resentment against patronage. Though he himself defined a pension as ''an allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," Johnson gratefully accepted a Government pension. Kingsmill pours a little cold water on the glowing friendship between Johnson and the Thrales...
...Alumni Hall, Wellesley, in conjunction with the Wellesley chorus: March 10, at Northampton with the Smith Glee Club. At both the Wellesley and the Smith concerts the Bach Mass will be sung. March 18, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a rendition of the Bach Mass, in a Pension Fund Concert; March 20, the Glee Club will sing at a meeting of the Eliot Memorial Association in Sanders Theatre...