Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swindle? One headache which both Franklin Roosevelt and Chairman Altmeyer sought to save old Bob Doughton was that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
When George Meyers of Lakewood, N. J. one day last year asked a Philadelphia friend for $25 to use in his upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket...
...Money Drive Ended...
...number has been limited to this figure because most of the refugees are still in Europe and it was felt that the money was raised specifically for German exiles. The two or three who will work here this half-year will be symbols of next year's full program, Robert E. Lane, '39 president of the Committee, said last night...
...drive for money is completed," he said, excepting unpaid pledges, and added that he thought the money would be sufficient to keep the refugees for a second year. Economy in the funds will be effected by boarding the students with local residents who have offered to keep them free as their contribution to the Committee...