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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks a year) would be established as soon as states passed appropriate laws; 3) workers who reach 65 after 1941 would receive Federal annuities; 4) eventually some 30,000,000 persons would receive such federal benefits; 5) taxes on payrolls and wages to provide these benefits will begin with the collection of about $230,000,000 in 1936 and amount to about $3,000,000,000 a year...
...pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot to Captain Gaskell's right foot.* Says oily MacArdle: "Why, it's breaking my heart to see you suffer like this. I can't bear it. . . . Please tell them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed at last, when the disgraced third officer heroically redeems himself, the pirates disappear leaving the Kin Lung much better off than it was before. MacArdle is exposed as an amiable human rat. Captain Gaskell seems better disposed toward China Doll...
Last week President Karleton Hackett of the Chicago City Opera Company announced a five-week season to begin in November in the Civic Opera House. Top price: $3. President Hackett said negotiations had been opened with Bori, Lehmann, Pons, Maria Jeritza, Claudia Muzio, Rosa Raisa, Tito Schipa, Ezio Pinza, John Charles Thomas. The repertory will include the U. S. première of Respighi's La Fiamma, Puccini's La Rondine, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...Negroes with frosted feet. There is the usual lack of insight in this story and the usual appeal to sentiment for the poor abused criminal. Both courts and publicists seem to have entirely overlooked the true philosophy and the correct attitude towards this class of criminal. To begin with, causation: I have had under my care in the past year three of these Negro types. All had frosted toes. This condition depending not on exposure so much as on the syphilitic disease of the blood vessels which brings about the gangrenous disease. One of them was paretic enough to attempt...
...preposterous!" spluttered Administrator Davis. "It's at least preliminary to fraud. It's a deliberate misrepresentation and not in any way possible. I shall begin an investigation of this at once...