Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession." But he is anxious not to have his book misused for the benefit of young idlers: "The function of the home helper is a rather special one. . . . His task is to slay some lion in the path whose fierce mien is absorbing a dangerous amount of nervous energy. . . . The task of the parent instructor begins when the child is stuck. Never before...
...mine subject for Ghostwriters Bureau. When Messrs. Baer & Woods first set up shop, businessmen were chary about hiring their services, usually conducted negotiations from home or on private stationery. Now Business has accepted ghostwriting as established practice, so long as names of clients are not made public. For the benefit of the more fastidious of these, Baer & Woods describe themselves as "clarificators...
...hours later, when Mr. Switter returned, he found the hospitals filled with dead & dying, the jails jammed with prisoners. The C. I. O. headquarters had been completely wrecked. Witness after union witness testified they had been routed from bed and arrested without benefit of search warrant. The only concealed weapon found on any of the 165 unionists arrested was one three-and-a-half-inch knife. All were examined by an immigration official but not one was found deportable...
Topsy-Turvy-For decades it appeared that New York City was created by a special dispensation of Providence for the benefit of the patriotic Society of St. Tammany. Tammany's serious troubles began in 1932 when the Democratic Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt, with his eye on the Presidency was obliged to investigate charges of graft and corruption against Tammany's dapper, wisecracking mayor, Jimmy Walker. When the hearing got too hot, Jimmy Walker resigned. Automatically Joseph V. McKee, president of the city's Board of Aldermen succeeded to the job and made motions of starting...
...acres of new parks and two new municipal bathing beaches. His city law department cleaned up back litigation, much of it 15 years old, some of it nearly 30, reduced recoveries in suits against the city by 73%. In doing these and a thousand other things he had the benefit of Federal relief and PWA grants running into many millions and he imposed a 2% city sales tax, but no responsible civic group contends that the city has not got its money's worth, and far more than that by Tammany standards. As long experience of Fusion administrations proves...