Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FORMER READER Boston, Mass...
...axiom in the insurance business that insurance is not bought but sold. In 1935 Franklin Roosevelt sold Congress and Congress sold the U. S. the Social Security Act, the biggest, most comprehensive, most expensive mass insurance policy ever written. Since then its purchasers, the nation's taxpayers, have had occasion to read their policy carefully and, if they have detected no outright jokers, their reaction has been such that practically every politician in the U. S. from Franklin Roosevelt down has put revision of Social Security at the top of his must list. Last week, as the House Ways...
...spectacular touch was added to yesterday's fun-making when one thousand students donned skis and acted as extras in a mass skiing scene which was filmed by Hollywood cameramen as a background for a movie about the carnival which Walter Wanger (Dartmouth '11) is making. The scenario was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bud Schulburg, both graduates...
...CHATHAM, Mass.--The Holland-American liner Veendam and the American Scantic liner Scanmail radioed the radiomarine station here at 7:50 p.m. tonight that they had not picked up survivors of the British freighter Maria de Larrinaga...
President Roosevelt several years following graduation spoke of the "spirit" on the paper and feared that this important feature of the CRIMSON would vanish when the location was changed from Mass. Ave. quarters to the Union. He said in part: "There was much fear expressed that the new quarters would take away the esprit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no Punch-nights could be held in the Union. Both fears have proved more than groundless...