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Repeal all Spanish War pension laws...
Before Budget Director Douglas lies a hard anonymous job, one that will make him many enemies, no friends. Upon him rests the party pledge of cutting Federal expenses 25%. But he is a do-or-die budget balancer and, though himself a veteran, is committed to "purging the pension rolls," even to the extent of knocking out the $400,000,000 now paid for non-military disabilities. When it comes to Government spending, able "Lew" Douglas, with the President's backing, will issue crisp orders to the ten members of the Cabinet the theory: they will obey...
...President Matthew Lyle Spencer submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president of Olivet College (Mich.) for two years. Before that he was for eleven years president of the University of Washington, where it is still said that...
...that he didn't propose to personally benefit by the summary dismissal of Mr. Gannon. And so after considerable discussion between Mr. Hecht on one side and the board on the other Mr. Hecht's loyalty to his predecessor won out and the board voted a substantial pension which Mr. Gannon received up to the day of his death...
...bill was introduced in the Hawaiian Senate providing a $350 monthly pension for Duke Kahanamoku, oldtime Olympic swimmer, "for services rendered." Once the superintendent of a Honolulu public building, Kahanamoku was recently demoted to janitor. "That looked like an invitation to get out," said...