Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onto that mighty stage last week marched Lawyer Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan, victor over NRA and the Guffey Coal Act in the Schechter and Carter cases, "to challenge the constitutionality of New York State's unemployment insurance law. Since last January the law has exacted a 1% payroll tax (which will increase to 2% in 1937, 3% in 1938) from all employers of four or more persons. From the fund thus created, workers who lose their jobs after next year will, following a three-week wait, get $5 to $15 per week for not more than 16 weeks...
Under the unemployment insurance provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, a payroll tax has been in force since Jan. 1 on all U. S. employers. First collection will be next Jan. 31. This tax, designed to shape and stimulate State action, will then be pocketed by the Government if the taxpayers' State has not yet set up an unemployment insurance system. In the 14 States which have created satisfactory insurance systems,* employers will contribute to a State fund, get a credit up to 90% of their Federal tax. From the balance which the Government collects, funds will...
...German rivers in the hands of International Commissions. By tearing up this page of the tattered Treaty, Herr Hitler did nothing of immediate practical effect but Central European countries like Czechoslovakia, much of whose goods passes over German rivers, took Der Führer's move as an act of derisive menace corresponding exactly to cocking a snook...
Nicaraguans enjoyed more another act by President Brenes Jarquin last week. He broadcasted the first Presidential radioration in Nicaragua's history. Because most of the natives are so poor they cannot afford radio sets, broadcasting has never been a Nicaraguan feature. Enthusiasm greeted the President's promise "to reduce the cost of radios to a minimum that all might enjoy their benefits...
...Greta Garbo in Camille to be released shortly. Following this feature, LIFE presented four other memorable Camilles: Bernhardt's, Ethel Barrymore's, Theda Bara's, Eva Le Gallienne's. A memorable color shot from the live theatre showed Helen Hayes & Co. in the great third-act pageant of Victoria Regina, eye-filling scene hitherto overlooked by snappers of performance pictures. To LIFE'S editors Miss Hayes also opened her private albums for her own picture-biography...