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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among numerous blasts at this astronomic dream was the report of Economist James Douglas Brown's Advisory Council (TIME, Dec. 26). That council, representing Government, Labor and the Public, recommended that in order to hold down the reserve, Social Security call a temporary halt to rate increases, begin payments of full benefits in 1940 instead of 1942, and extend them to more people. Last week, in a report to the House Ways & Means Committee, Henry Morgenthau said nothing about speeding up payments. But he did approve another suggestion: to give up the idea of "full reserve" and substitute...
...little about social conditions, and teachers "don't like children." TIME views as "alarming" the state of ignorance of America's million teachers, condescendingly admits that teaching "is an honorable profession" (as though anyone doubted it) and goes on to say that the 100,000 youngsters who begin preparation for teaching each year are "earnest if not top-notch...
...answers largely depend on the character of Francisco Franco, and last week as Spain was about to begin another chapter in her long history, the plump, enigmatic little man who will boss it-strangely colorless for a Spaniard-and the men with whom he has surrounded himself attracted the world's curiosity...
...Princeton, and Albert Einstein, at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. At the New School for Social Research in Manhattan is a "University in Exile," whose entire faculty consists of European notables. But it is as students, not teachers, that many refugees have found a chance to begin life afresh in U. S. colleges,* public and private schools...
...crippled Edith von Kekesfalva, daughter of an Austrian pseudo nobleman. Invited for the first time to the Kekesfalvas' big country estate, naïve young Hofmiller, un aware that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs, hysterical abuse. So begin Hof miller's visits to comfort and cheer this girl, frail, intuitive, passionate, spoiled by every luxury. For Hofmiller, pity is pleasurable until it turns into a jinni which needs his commanding officer, the War and suicide to pry loose...