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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day some 50,000 New Yorkers spend a nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Fair & Warmer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

This would amount to putting Social Security largely on a collect-as-you-pay basis. Henry Morgenthau warned that the change may well mean higher payroll taxes than those now planned to peak at 3% each on employes and employers in 1949. To even matters up he took another suggestion of the Advisory Council, advised that at some future date the U. S. Government should share the burden with employers and employes; that is, meet part of the expense by indirect rather than direct taxes on prospective beneficiaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Fundamental Fallacy | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object: to prove that Petrillo during the past ten years had run an arsenic epidemic to collect upwards of $100,000 in insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arsenic Epidemic | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...York's Attorney General retaliated for the Port Authority levy by trying to collect State income tax upon the Federal salary of an attorney for HOLC (TIME, Nov. 28). Utah's Attorney General tried to collect on the salary of an RFC attorney. In each case, the State's high court ruled against its Attorney General. No one was surprised, for 120 years ago, in a somewhat similar case, McCulloch v. Maryland, U. S. Chief Justice Marshall ruled against Maryland saying: "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." This week the U. S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Marshall Overruled | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...holders of tickets on Workman in the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes drawing, it was a marvelous race indeed. All but the four who had sold half interests to soft-soaping, sixtyish Sidney Freeman (representing Douglas Stuart, Ltd., last week in Manhattan) stood to collect $141,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Over Aintree Meadow | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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