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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Social Security having paid out only $11,000,000 on old-age benefits (to Dec. 31 last) is rapidly piling up a huge reserve. By 1980, as the act now reads, the reserve would amount to $47,000,000,000 (about seven times the amount of money now circulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Fundamental Fallacy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Last week Franklin Roosevelt and his fiscal servant, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., at last recognized this fundamental fallacy of the Social Security Act and asked Congress to correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Fundamental Fallacy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...increase in old-age levies (scheduled to rise next January from 1% to 1½% on employers and employes), or to postpone any increase at all until 1943. That seemed just as pleasing to Congress, just as appeasing to business, as correcting a bad boner in the Social Security Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Fundamental Fallacy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...consideration by as large a number of students as possible of the legislation pending in the present session of Congress. Major issues now up in Congress will be discussed in eight Committees based on the committees in the National Congress, including education, social security, relief, civil liberties, Wagner Act, health, agriculture, and foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOINT CONGRESS WILL BE HELD ON APRIL 14, 15 | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

This production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" is first-class. Miss Winwood's directing is smooth, although the first act could be improved by cutting long speeches that leave the actors breathless and the audience a little bewildered. In these days of powerhouse realism and bitter satire, Oscar Wilde has the faintly cloying fragrance of too much old lavender; but he is still amusing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE WILBUR | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

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