Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first entered Franklin Roosevelt's life in 1929 when he was assigned to act as bodyguard whenever New York's new Governor was in the city. So great a hit did Gus's good nature and love of horseplay make with all the Roosevelts that he soon was attached to Albany, went everywhere with the Governor. In the winter of 1933 when the Roosevelts moved to Washington they got Gus a 60-day leave of absence so that he could technically complete 25 years on the force, retire on a $1,500-a-year pension. These qualifications...
Because they believe it impious to sign contracts, thriftless to accept charity, the hardworking, straight-laced Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania firmly flouted the late AAA. Farming Mennonites voluntarily reduced acreage in accordance with the Act's spirit but put their names to nothing accepted no benefits (TIME, March 18, 1935). In Lancaster, Pa. last week the Mennonite Board of Missions revealed that the new Social Security Act is equally incompatible with the sect's tenets. The Board wrote the Philadelphia office of the Social Security Board declaring that, although Mennonites will gladly pay the taxes the law demands...
Largest classes of workers excluded from the pension provisions of the Social Security Act are farmers and domestic servants. Included in the Act as originally written, they were stricken out by the Senate after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's protest that it would be virtually impossible to collect taxes from them and their employers. Last week in Washington it was made known that the Social Security Board was preparing to propose to Congress the creation of a voluntary Government insurance system for these 16,000,000 pensionless citizens. To be administered by the Board, it would accept premiums...
...that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry Adams records that although the Minister never thought Earl Russell was a liar, he had to act as though he were...
Among the student contributions are notes discussing the tax on undistributed corporate profits and the Guffey Coal Act. Other notes, comments on recent decisions, and book reviews complete the issue...