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...seem to care. Superintendent O'Shea, according to his Who's Who biography, will be 69 this week. But the school retirement board lists him as 70, retirement age. and last week announced that he would be automatically retired next Jan. i on a pension of $10,000 to $12,500. Said Dr. O'Shea: "The retirement board has it a year earlier and I'm going to let it go at that. I am not going to argue the matter...
...easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
...contracted disease while serving in their country's defense; that no person, because he wore a uniform, must thereafter be placed in a special class of beneficiaries over and above all other citizens. The fact of wearing a uniform does not mean that he should receive a pension because of a disability incurred after his service...
...Legion accepted this Roosevelt doctrine with good grace. It realized that its demands for prepayment of the Bonus and an over-generous pension policy had caused it to lose caste. Now, in its own words, it was out to "resell itself to the country" as a good citizen...
...Majesty the suave scamp explained the Venetian lottery system. This Louis XV promptly introduced into France, with Casanova as manager, later conferred on him a pension which enabled him to visit and seduce elegant ladies in all parts of Europe. Until recently the Third Republic has scorned to stoop to lotteries, but two months ago Finance Minister Bonnet decided he must take the plunge. Last week he put on sale a batch of 2,000,000 lottery tickets, soon to be followed by four similar batches...