Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issue there appeared an erroneous statement regarding pension for the loss of a leg, which follows: "e.g., $30 a month...
...Pension for the loss of a leg is paid on the basis of the degree of disability suffered by the veteran . . . ranging from $11.50 a month for a 10% disability to $115 a month for a 100% disability. In addition to this disability pension, a statutory award of $35 a month is paid for the loss of a limb...
...refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...
...story of a sort of Jewish Mr. Chips, so creakily gallant and suicidally innocent an old gentleman that he goes from England to Germany in 1938 to look for the mother of a distraught Jewish refugee boy. He finds security, of an uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When he takes his little problem to the police...
M.G.M., still rich with 20 such stars as Hedy Lamarr, Greer Garson and Judy Garland, has evolved a fancy, expensive pension plan for stars and top executives, in an attempt to turn tax losses into benefits, to the extent of financing them well into eternity (TIME, July...