Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meet the situation Parliament passed supplementary acts. Workers who have not made the statutory 30 payments entitling them to "covenanted benefits" may now obtain "transitional benefits" of similar amount by proving they have made only eight payments, and these any time within the past two years. Payments of such emergency benefits were to end April 19 this year, but the "transitional period" has now been extended indefinitely...
Beginning Friday inoculations for Typhoid will be given at Stillman Infirmary from three to four o'clock for any students who desire to obtain this protection. The series of inoculations will give protection for about three years, and is especially advised for men who intend to travel this summer. If enough men are unable to take the treatment on Friday, the inoculations will be given on Tuesday also...
When a wealthy man contributes heavily to his party's presidential campaign fund and thereafter, upon his candidate's election to the White House, is rewarded with an Ambassadorship, nobody seriously accuses him of having bribed the President of the U. S. to obtain a good fat job. But because he shuffled this standardized political procedure into an illegitimate pattern an ex-Congressman of Indiana last week stood convicted in Federal court of bribery and job-selling. His conviction loomed as a general warning to all other Congressmen to play the patronage game according to the rules...
...Power Authority must first obtain consent from the Federal Government and Canada to dam the international rapids. Then it must negotiate marketing contracts with private companies, particularly Niagara Hudson Power Corp., for the distribution of its power. These contracts, of great importance in the whole scheme, constitute the State's new method of rate regulation whereby the benefits of public production may be passed along to the consumer. If reasonable contracts for the control of prices cannot be made, the Power Authority must return to the Legislature for additional permission to go into the power transmission and distribution business...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted} to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...