Word: fills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to the work before the first Congress, the work of later Congresses, even under the New Deal, was duck soup. The first Congress had to make its rules, set up the Departments of State, Treasury and War, fill the Treasury (by tariffs which remained models of log-rolling for a century), set up the Federal judiciary (its designer, Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, became fourth Chief Justice), assume the national and State ,debts (by trading to Virginia the capital site on the Potomac). All this it did, and more...
...feature pictures made by Hollywood each year, about 20% are always "Westerns." Most of these, turned out wholesale by minor studios to fill in the second half of double bills in U. S. rural theatres, are not good enough for grownups. Nonetheless, its scenery, its legends and its way of life make the U. S. Far West ideal cinematerial. Last week cinemaddicts were reminded of this fact by the release of two new "Westerns" which, made with high-grade casts and traditional respect for their subject, were each, in different ways, notable...
...greatly simplified terms, the fictitious cases of Jenny and Suzie are the problems which the Administration must face in connection with the recent Union agitation about the Pension Plan. On one side is Jenny whose job is temporary, whose wages must fill an immediate need, and whose old age security lies with her husband. On the other is Suzie whose job is permanent, whose wages must fill a future need as well as an immediate one, and whose old age security depends on no one but herself...
...Jenny's case, the Union has offered a solution, the abolition of compulsory Annuities. This would enable her to use her $12 to fill the immediate need for which the money was earned. But the Union has neglected Suzie. As yet no demands by the Union or provisions by the University have been made to boost the retirement income of low-wage employees. Suzie's case is therefore far more desperate than Jenny's. Obviously Suzie can not take much more out of her present wages to contribute to the Pension Plan and still keep her financial nose above water...
Forty-one nominations for the second Senior Election to fill the posts of Class Secretary, Class Day Committee, and Permanent Class Committee were announced last night...