Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployment insurance plan of the Act, he declared, should be left to the states. For the Federal Government's share in the Social Security program he suggested enlargement of the present old-age pension system to "provide for every American citizen over 65 the supplementary payment necessary to give him a minimum income sufficient to protect him or her from want...
...criticism of the present Act is not that its purpose is bad. It is that this Act will involve a cruel disappointment for those of our people least able to bear the shock of disappointment. . . . I will not promise the moon. I promise only what I know can be performed : Economy, a living pension, and such security as can be provided by a generous people...
...days later Chairman John G. Winant of the Social Security Board, idealistic onetime Governor of New Hampshire, turned in his resignation to fight his fellow-Republican on the Social Security issue, at the same time telling President Roosevelt: "I have never assumed that the . . . Act was without fault...
...windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion's public career. The $1,900,000,000 bonus, its goal of years, had been won nine years before...
...three days amounted to something over 12 hours, and more than 150 records were required to preserve the speeches. Dr. Frederick V. Hunt, instructor in Physics and Communication, and attached to the staff of the Cruft Laboratory, was in charge of the work, and he announced that when the act is completed it will be filed in the University archives in Widener with other Tercentenary material...