Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transactions," a transaction being grandly defined as "any dealing of any kind whatsoever between two or more persons." Such a tax, replacing the State's present ad valorem tax, would net $25,000,000 annually, thought the Governor, to help pay for State old age pensions up to $15 a month (another $15 to come from the Federal Government...
...age which is scarcely conducive to the maintenance of faith of whatever sort, Lucius N. Littauer, donor of $2,000,000 to the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, has managed to celebrate his eightieth birthday with words of good cheer and hope. "I can be classified," he told reporters without wavering, "as one who has confidence for the future in spite of the present...
...national weekly magazine, reporting Benedict's bequest, referred to him as a "typical, obscure, sentimental old grad," and declared that he had become bored with the practice of law at 38 and retired soon afterwards. He lived on until his death at the age of 89, leading an essentially quiet life, dividing his time, according to the four seasons of the year, between Pittsfield. Boston, Washington, and an annual trip abroad, together with occasional journeys to see the Yale teams perform...
Mention the idea that a hard-pressed college boy, earning his board or part of it by waiting on table or washing dishes should be obliged to pay an Old Age Insurance Tax, in order to provide him with a theoretical Old Age Pension when he reaches the age of 65, and you are greeted with a wan, incredulous smile suggesting that you have made a creditable effort to perpetrate a rather poor joke. Yet this is exactly what a solemnly paternalistic government at Washington, probably unintentionally it is true, has decreed...
...educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious incongruity. The act further provides for a gradual increase in this Old Age Insurance Tax to six percent by 1948. To meet these payments fraternities will be forced eventually to cut down on either wages or jobs, hurting those who most need financial help. Thus is higher education encouraged...." --The Amherst Student...