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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversy raised its head: labor leaders prepared to urge the American Federation of Labor convention next week at Tampa to demand that Congress place the whole old-age pension tax on employers instead of splitting it half-&-half between employer and employe. This they proposed in vain when the Act was originally passed. Now they hope to succeed, being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority of employers will shift the tax to their customers, Labor as the largest consumer will pay most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Social Security | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Señor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing a charitable act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Louis) has been buzzing for a month because authorities revoked the scholarships of one undergraduate and two graduate students for distributing circulars urging freshmen not to join the University's voluntary Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. In most schools benefiting by public land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862, R.O.T.C training for underclassmen is compulsory. Old stuff to most educators are the perennial kicks against it by boys who think either that fighting is wrong or drilling is a bore (TIME, April 6 et ante). New stuff, however, was the action Oregon's adults took last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old & New Stuff | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Thomas H. Eliot '28, legal adviser of the Social Security Board, will explain the purpose and actions of the Board at Dunster House Monday evening. It is expected that he will also defend the Social Security Act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

...rule applies only to Houses; in all other College buildings the former regulation making it necessary to have an older person to act as chaperone is still in force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO ACTION BY HOUSE HEADS ON WOMEN RULE | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

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