Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke & Mrs. Simpson. It was an achievement last week that Mrs. Simpson was able for the first time to go shopping in Cannes without causing a crowd to collect. She ate her Christmas dinner not in the villa of her friends Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers but with her famed chaperon Aunt Bessie in a Cannes hotel. Greatest ambition of the Woman of the Year seemed to be to drop from world publicity's most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion, the perfect 1937 exit for the Woman...
...literature committee will collect all books and pamphlets written by members of the class. In addition to this collection, which will be presented to the library, a bibliography of all writings by members of the Class, including all magazine articles, will be collected...
...bearing Divine "angels" bound for Manhattan collided with the automobile of a Mrs. Nina I. Bayless of Aberdeen, Md. She brought suit against Father Divine and his lieutenant in whose name the bus was registered. A Maryland court awarded her a judgment of $6,000. Seeking to collect the money for Mrs. Bayless, Lawyer William W. Lesselbaum of Manhattan examined Father Divine and several "angels," could get none to admit that the cultist had any funds. Lawyer Lesselbaum began sleuthing. Last week in Manhattan he obtained an order to show cause why Father Divine should not be punished for contempt...
Among the chances for honest graft which come a legislator's way, few are more hallowed by time and custom than mileage allowances. U. S. Congressmen get 20? per mile for traveling between their homes and the Capitol between sessions, may collect whether they travel or not. Ohio legislators get only 3.6? per mile. Vexed perhaps by that discrepancy, Ohio's Representatives did their best to make up for it last week. Meeting for the first time since a "five-minute recess" which began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions...
Largest classes of workers excluded from the pension provisions of the Social Security Act are farmers and domestic servants. Included in the Act as originally written, they were stricken out by the Senate after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's protest that it would be virtually impossible to collect taxes from them and their employers. Last week in Washington it was made known that the Social Security Board was preparing to propose to Congress the creation of a voluntary Government insurance system for these 16,000,000 pensionless citizens. To be administered by the Board, it would accept premiums...