Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting them to pay up as they earn...
...Under the Homestead Act of 1862, any boy could go to the West and acquire a home and a chance to earn a living for the mere asking. Today these opportunities are gone. We can no longer expand to the West. Hopes and aspirations of young America are piling up behind the dam of economic circumstances. No such economic barrier can long survive the pressure which increases with each rising hour. Let us open the floodgates to young America, by legislating this Homestead Act of 1938. The American Youth Act is the new frontier...
...terms; to give them places to go in the summer time-recreation; to give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit, and to give every one a chance to earn a living...
Whatever the propriety of Franklin Roosevelt's literary deal, it set two precedents: 1) It made Roosevelt II the first President to earn a substantial sum as an .author while still in the White House; 2) For the first time a President's words to reporters had been judged of resale value...
...University plan is actually more generous than it would be under the Social Security Act, it was said, as maids become eligible for pension payments under the University system after working a shorter period than would be necessary under the federal act. The Social Security Act requires that workers earn at least $2000 after January 1, 1936 before they can be eligible for payments, while the University requires three years preliminary service. It would take maids five years to earn enough money to qualify for federal pensions...