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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he did not propose increasing at once the amounts paid out for old age benefits, Mr. Morgenthau had to take the one other method of keeping the reserve fund down. Granting that payroll taxes might be slowing Recovery, he proposed either to reduce the rate of increase in old-age levies (scheduled to rise next January from 1% to 1½% on employers and employes), or to postpone any increase at all until 1943. That seemed just as pleasing to Congress, just as appeasing to business, as correcting a bad boner in the Social Security...
...navy consists of only six destroyers, manned by 137 officers, 1,582 men. Her total active militia is 4,034 men. Her coastal defense guns date from before the War, and are so small that enemy battleships could anchor unharmed 30,000 yards off Halifax or Vancouver and demolish either city. Worst of all, Canada has at most two anti-aircraft guns...
...first tryouts, on April 18, candidates will be required to present a complete brief and a five-minute speech on one side of the question. From the 12 men selected in the first tryouts, six will take either the affirmative or the negative, while the remaining six will become alternates...
...felt by those sponsoring the petition that either he should be retained in his present position or that a new post be found for him, since his "Leftist" critical opinions "are not represented elsewhere in the Harvard community...
...surrealistic sight of a Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll...