Word: maides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joan Fontaine's performance in "Maid's Night Out" comes as a pleasing contrast. Although vaguely reminiscent of the old Hal Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...
...computed that if a maid were to start work at the age of twenty-five and continue until the retirement age, she would receive a pension of $14 a month or $168 a year. However, University officials agreed that relatively few maids start to work for Harvard at the age of twenty-five and that an employee receiving the same salary as the hypothetical maid in question would after forty years under the federal plan receive $300 a year or 75 per cent of his salary...
...analysis of criticisms levelled at the University Pension plan and the explanation given by its authors makes clear both the good intentions of the University and the inadequacy of its pension system. Despite the fact that the administration contributes 126% as much as the employees, a maid who pays premiums for twenty years may at the end of that time receive only four dollars a month. Such a small return is merely a caricature of the security which a pension system is supposed to provide. It returns to the recipient just enough money to supply carfare to the relief bureau...
...University plan is more advantageous than the federal act. But as a matter of plain statistical fact the provision which the University makes for its lowest paid employees does not equal the pensions set by the Social Security Act for workers on the same low wage level. Thus a maid who receives a pension of ten dollars a month after thirty-five years under the Harvard plan, would under the Social Security Act receive twenty-five dollars a month...
...Foodstuffs will be sold at 23½% discount. Saki will be free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken away each day. In the event of Foreigners wishing to employ Japanese Maid Servants, they are requested to make application to the Garrison Commander at the Japanese Club as soon as possible as there are a limited number of Nei-sans (House Girls...