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Founded by a dissident Townsendite named Arthur L. Johnson, General Welfare Federation now maintains the only year-round old-age-pension lobby in Washington. The General Welfare Act it proposes, promising $60 at 60, is based on a gross income tax of persons and firms, exempting only sums paid out in wages, taxes and interest. The plan is modeled after taxes now levied in Indiana and Hawaii, and the federation calculates it could raise $7,000,000,000 a year for pensions in the U.S. The General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them...
...that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
...Rights. This startling fact was certified by Librarian Denys P. Myers of Boston to Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who last week hastened to inform his Legislature. In 1790, when Amendments I to X to the Constitution were submitted to Massachusetts for ratification, "your honorable predecessors," said Governor Saltonstall, "failed to act because they became involved in an attempt to propose even more inclusive definitions of the rights of the people." Governor Saltonstall suggested that the forefathers' oversight be rectified on or about the Bill of Rights' 139th birthday, March...
...friendly one but would not be permitted to function inside French territory. The rumors flew thick & fast that France and Britain were about to do something to prevent further bloodshed in the war. From London came a report that the British had been asked by the Loyalists to act as intermediaries. From Perpignan came a dispatch saying that President Azaña opposed further resistance. He was said to have split with Dr. Negrin and to have gone to Paris. The Catalonian Government was said to have declared the war at an end as far as it was concerned, which...
Main legal issue was whether she had filed the copies "promptly," as specified by the Copyright Act of 1909. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled she had not. To crusty Justice McReynolds last week fell the job of reversing that decision and setting Messrs. Pearson and Allen on their own tack. Read he: "While no action can be maintained before copies are actually deposited, mere delay will not destroy the right to sue. . . . The cause will be remanded to the District Court [for the setting of damages]." Four of the original Nine Old Men concurred. Dissenters were Justices...