Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make impossible. No such bill has yet been written or even formally discussed, but from the House last week Business received one pleasant surprise. The Ways & Means Committee, preparing to carry out the Treasury's recommended revision of the Security laws, voted not only to freeze the old age insurance tax at 1% until 1943 but also to exempt from payroll taxes (unemployment insurance) all pay over $3,000 a year to any employe. Further, the Committee recommended that States with "adequate" unemployment insurance reserves be allowed to reduce payroll taxes for employers with "favorable" records...
Britain has too many pots on the European fire just now to stir up an Irish stew. Moreover, the British public's appetite for the age-old Irish question has vanished. Of late Britain has been of a mind to let the Irish have anything within reason...
Adoption agencies choose parents with great care, usually prefer couples around 30 years of age who are in good health, have secure incomes and sunny dispositions and homes. Although there is no rule against giving children to well-settled single persons, the demand for children far exceeds the supply and childless couples have first choice. Greatest difficulty agencies have is discouraging people over 50, who insist on adopting infants. Average age of foster parents, however, is around 40, since most persons wait for adoption until they are convinced that they can have no children of their own. Great- est favorites...
Years before, friends had implored him to train a successor, that his brilliant work might be perpetuated. Said he: "If you will find me someone who has generations of artists working in glass behind him, and who will begin work at the age of ten' and work ten hours a day for ten years, then I could begin to teach him." When Rudolph Blaschka died in Germany last week, no such successor had been found...
...Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes and she-befeathered, beflowered and bemused-sat humming them, a crowd, many of them oldsters, peered...