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Widows. The Ministry of Health (Parliamentary Secretary, Miss Lawrence) issued the text of an amendment to the Widows Pensions Act of 1925. If passed, the amendment will broaden the pension system to include an additional half-million widows. Complex, the measure teems with such provisos as that if a woman is between 55 and 70, and if her husband died before Jan. 1, 1926, then the lucky widow will receive ten shillings a week ($2.50) for the rest of her life...
...Berger returned to the House as Representative of the Fifth Wisconsin District. He was defeated for re-election last November. His chief legislative hobbies: 1) Abolition of the Constitution; 2) Substitution of a nationwide referendum for the Senate; 3) Repeal of the 18th Amendment; 4) An old age pension bill; 5) Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones; 6) Unemployment insurance...
...something wild beating against influences arranged to tame it. A woman named Mabel Poulton, who used to be a stenographer in London, plays the part of Tessa, the composer's daughter who remembers the thundering music of mountainsides too well to endure the organized drabness of a Brussels pension. Best shot: Miss Poulton standing wearily in front of the window out of which she is going to jump before she struggles, with dismayed and frantic awkwardness, to open...
...Harvard board of trustees, following the recent collapse of the Carnegie foundation's pension endowment, has come handsome to the rescue of its faculty, arranging to make good out of the University's treasury the difference between the pensions promised in 1915 and the amount the foundation has discovered it can afford since the January overhauling of its accounts...
Even financial experts have their moments of carelessness, especially when their problem is an administrative one extending over long periods and concerned with large investments. The multifold philanthropy of that most generous Scotchman, Andrew Carnegie, is suffering now in one of its branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future...