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...upon the good books of the Social Security Board in Washington last week went the indigent aged, the needy blind, the dependent minors of Oklahoma. They had been cut off in March when Washington discovered monstrous and comical padding of the old-age rolls by corpses, well-off oldsters, asylum inmates, a Negro registered under two names, etc., etc. (TIME, March 7). When the State Welfare Commission declared it had purified its relief system, SSB waited a few weeks to be sure the purge was permanent. Satisfied last week, SSB resumed matching each Oklahoma welfare dollar with a Federal...
President Roosevelt on Friday (April 1) announced that the United States will offer asylum to political refugees from all countries. The country, he declared would welcome representatives of all oppressed minorities...
...details of the plan had been worked out and before the State Department had explained precisely what the committee would be expected to accomplish, Franklin Roosevelt told a Warm Springs, Ga. press conference that he hoped the U. S. would maintain its 150-year-old tradition by becoming an asylum for political refugees not only from Germany and Austria but from Russia, Italy and Spain as well. Whether or not his invitation included such refugees as Leon Trotsky, currently exiled in Mexico, the President...
...Living (adapted by Hardie Albright from the book, I Knew 3,000 Lunatics, by Dr. Victor R. Small; produced by Cheryl Crawford). The theatre, having investigated slums, hospitals and prisons in recent years, last week turned its attention to an insane asylum. All the Living takes a steady, unhysterical look at the inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs...
...wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into a diatribe on their immodesty. Souring under the strain, he declares the world is going to the dogs, picks fights with his wife, winds up in an asylum...