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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railmen's Insurance. Although failing to fashion a crutch for the staggering railroads (see col. 1), Congress last week passed a bill taking railway employes out of the unemployment insurance systems of the States and putting them under a Federal system handled by the Railroad Retirement Board. Benefits: $1.75 to $3 per day for up to 80 days of idleness per year. Source of revenue: a 3% payroll tax on wages up to $300 per month...
Merchant Marine. Congress extended the Maritime Commission's power to fix rates, and to insure ship mortgages up to $200,000,000. It created a Maritime Labor Board with mediation powers...
...save the German people five years ago, was added a new decree whose simple purpose was to suffocate what is left of Jewish economic life. Main provisions: 1) Jewish concerns will be identified, probably with special signs on the place of business; 2) if one member of the board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company will be Jewish. Furthermore, "Aryan" trading with Jews will be considered a "deliberate demonstration against the Government's attitude on the Jewish question...
...population except Washington, D. C. has five daily newspapers. Result has been that only one- Frank Brett Noyes's stodgy Star-has made money; seldom have they achieved any particular journalistic distinction. Five years ago among the least distinguished was the Post. When former Federal Reserve Board Governor and RFC Chairman Eugene Meyer bought the rundown property in 1933 for $825,000, few thought that a banker, entering the publishing business at the age of 57, would make newspaper history...
School District No. 5 in Dearborn, Mich, had a school board election last week. Expecting a close contest, voters turned out in unprecedented numbers. With 266 votes and a record majority, they re-elected an old board member, one Henry Ford...