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During the session President Hoover vetoed seven measures, including the first relief bill, a Democratic tariff bill, an omnibus pension bill, a bill for a pre-arranged wage scale on public works...
Under the pension plan introduced last year by Myron Charles Taylor, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, David G. Kerr, longtime vice president in charge of coal, limestone and ore, retired in favor of Edwin E. Ellis, president of Steel's research subsidiary, Universal Exploration Co. Last fortnight Eugene Jackson Buffington, president, since the resignation of the late Plunger John Warne Gates in 1899, of Illinois Steel Co. (biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary in the Chicago district), stepped aside for his vice president, George Gowen Thorp. Observers marked their retirement as milestones in Chairman Taylor's determined...
Insull creditors were reported in agreement not to force Samuel Insull through bankruptcy. The three big Insull operating companies, Peoples Gas, Public Service of Northern Illinois and Commonwealth Edison, last week each voted him $6,000 a year. His friends did not like to call it a "pension," said rather it was payment for "overtime work in the past." Beclouded was the outlook for Mr. Insull's expensive hobby, Chicago's Civic Opera. In Cleveland, Cyrus Stephen Eaton told newspapermen he was sorry for Samuel Insull. When Mr. Insull found out in 1928 that Mr. Eaton was buying...
...warm, easy life in the South of France suits Philip so perfectly that even to himself he becomes Philippe Josselin and as Philippe Josselin he sees nothing strange or wrong about loving Jeanne, the pension-keeper's daughter. The French undertow is so strong that Millicent is forgotten until a telegram reminds him of the wedding three weeks off. He goes back to England, tries to explain his reincarnation to Millicent but she will not release him. He escapes to France, marries Jeanne. But his new-found ego absorbs him so completely that not until she is dying...
Veterans. Dapper, aggressive John Thomas Taylor of the American Legion and dark, stocky L. S. ("Ted") Ray of the Veterans of Foreign Wars pushed the War widows pension bill through the House last week. But Lobbyist Ray failed to get the Bonus out of committee...