Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folks, Social Security, which will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942, is still pie in the sky. The business of the witnesses before the Doughton committee was to show how the pie could be brought down within reach without wrecking the nation's economic structure...
...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...
When Massachusetts educators and scientists meet Sunday night in Sanders Theatre to emphasize "the American legacy of intellectual freedom," it will not only be part of a nation-wide demonstration but the direct result of an article written several months ago by a German scientist which contrasted a "pragmatic Aryan physics" with a "Jewish physics, which is theoretical and dogmatic...
...score of other meetings will be held throughout the nation, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace addressing the key meeting at New York...
Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...