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Loss of Italian Citizenship will hereafter bar the payment of any pension whatsoever from an Italian source to ex-citizens...
...Court acquitted Herr Boess of "misdemeanor," censured him for "incorrect behavior," fined him one month's salary of 3,000 marks ($714). This left him free to retire last week ("because of poor health") and receive for life the handsome pension of a Berlin Ober-Bürgermeister (equivalent to "Lord Mayor"), namely: 30,000 marks ($7,140) a year...
George Poindexter Bagby, vice president of Western Maryland Railway Co., acting president since the murder of Chairman-President Maxwell Cunningham Byers (TIME. Oct. 6), was elected president of the road. The position of chair-man remains vacant. At the same directors' meeting, a substantial pension to be used in the education of Mr. Byers' five sons was voted...
...year and a half ago I begged you to let me return to the ranks without asking position or pension. You responded with an order to remain. I obeyed then, as was my duty. But today, at the beginning of the ninth Fascist year, I must repeat that wish. Almost five years of direction of the party are long and exhausting for whoever wishes with all his heart to work in the rhythm that you have impressed on Italian life...
...Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben, experienced Prussian officer, became in 1778 Inspector General of the Continental Army. He drilled recruits, made soldiers. In 1781 he watched his soldiers defeat the British at Yorktown. Congress, grateful for his services, gave him a gold-hilted sword, $2,400-per-year pension. He died at Steubenville, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1794. Last week the U. S. Postoffice Department prepared to issue 50 million special 2? stamps commemorative of Von Steuben's birth: the German's head reproduced in the same pink color as the standard 2? (Washington-head) variety...