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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded by a dissident Townsendite named Arthur L. Johnson, General Welfare Federation now maintains the only year-round old-age-pension lobby in Washington. The General Welfare Act it proposes, promising $60 at 60, is based on a gross income tax of persons and firms, exempting only sums paid out in wages, taxes and interest. The plan is modeled after taxes now levied in Indiana and Hawaii, and the federation calculates it could raise $7,000,000,000 a year for pensions in the U.S. The General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them...
...sounds of strife grew louder and more intelligible, passengers perceived that the words "pay up" . . . dime . . . fare . . . tryin' to get away with something, huh? . . . No I didn't . . . paid before . . ." emanated at regular intervals from the conductor's sanctum...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...employes crowded into its cheery cafeteria (green walls, cretonne curtains) to hear how their management was running their business. Gus and his fellows learned that the company had run up a $10,000 deficit on a 1938 gross of $82,600. But Pilgrim had laid off no regular worker, paid its regular dividends, maintained a 7% wage increase granted in 1937 (average wage: $25.53 a week...
Foreign consumers met the difference in several ways-with U. S. money left in Europe by tourists, sent home by emigrants or paid to foreign shippers carrying U. S. goods. But the principal way they paid for goods was with gold, of which the U. S. now holds 60% of the world's monetary supply...