Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Wisconsin Reserve Plan or some other sort. Actually the greatest asset of unemployment insurance rests in the blanket protection it affords to both employer and employee. The proposed plan, now being formulated in several states, wherein the employers are generously allowed to contribute to the fund and the employees to stand cheering on the sidelines, would defeat the whole purpose of the bill both in cooperation and spirit...
Tomorrow afternoon Harvard will have an opportunity to hear one of America's leading contemporary poets when Archibald MacLeish gives the Morris Gray Poetry Fund's annual lecture in Sever 11. The talk, which will begin at 4.30 o'clock, will be open to all members of the University and to others especially interested...
...October the U. S. State Department got down to the point of making Ambassador Troyanovsky an offer of practically what Russia had been refused by Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The offer: the U. S., while not ready to make an outright Government loan, would set up a revolving fund to finance Soviet purchases. Russia would pay for the use of this fund an interest rate of some 9%, the entire transaction being for an amount so large that interest payments by Russia would more than suffice to wipe (jut the principal of all U. S. claims. Had President Roosevelt...
...bitterly opposed to voting a $4,000,000,000 slush-fund to this Administration to be spent in the future as so much of this money has been spent in the past. ... I deeply and sincerely regret that this body has degenerated into a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nit-wits...
...June 1934, 50 houses were almost or entirely finished. One was occupied. Out of its $25,000,000 Subsistence Homestead fund the Interior Department had spent on the project $437,645-not including about $140,000 worth of work by CWA, CCC and FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...