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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Signed by the President, with a long statement applauding it, and flaying sales-tax schemes like the Townsend Plan, together with Treasury-raiding schemes like the Connally amendment (two Federal dollars for one State dollar), was the Social Security revision act. To study further Security revision, he added Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board (but, strangely, not Administrator Paul McNutt of the Security Agency) to his Cabinet committee on this subject...
Only conspicuous Old Dealer on the scene was John O'Connor, the purged Congressman from New York. Uninvited, he prowled around town looking for infractions of the Hatch Act, growling against the convention's Rooseveltian hoopla. To one reporter he said: "It has been prearranged in Washington by Corcoran, Cohen and Ishansky. . . . Since John L. Lewis is pushed out of the picture as the most powerful man in the country, Ishansky is running the country." Inquiry revealed that by "Ishansky" Mr. O'Connor meant "someone who looks like" Constantine Oumansky, Ambassador to the U. S. from Soviet...
...Passed, after four weeks' haggling, a bill amending the Social Security Act: 1) to spare employes and employers $825,000,000 in taxes over the next three years by freezing the old-age payroll tax at 1% through 1942; 2) to limit the unemployment insurance payroll tax to the first $3,000 of earnings cutting off about $65,000,000 in taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members...
...Revenue Act of 1938 Congress put a prohibitive excise tax of 3? a pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built...
...have a leg amputated. From that day on he gave up drinking and settled down. At 70 he is a conservative, steady, hard-working newspaperman who not only covers police but, under the name of Verdino, writes a daily column on fishing and hunting, and finds time to act as secretary of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild. He is going to write his memoirs, if he can ever find the time...