Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad Pension Bill replacing the act declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The Government will pay direct pensions up to $120 a month by means of a 7% tax on railroad payrolls, half to be paid by the carriers and half by the employes...
...Federal Budget by 25%, President Roosevelt swept through a dazzled Congress the Economy Act of 1933, enabling him to lop an estimated $500,000,000 per year off Government expenditures. Most of this saving was obtained by separating veterans who had not been disabled in actual service from the pension rolls, by cutting all Federal salaries...
...many days" was what President Roosevelt said when he heard last week that Congress had finally polished off and approved the Social Security Bill. Only one major change had been made in the measure in conference: killed was Senator Clark's amendment to permit companies with private pension systems to retain them instead of contributing to the Government's system. A fight over the deletion was averted by a gentlemen's agreement that the subject of private pensions would be studied with a view to amending the bill later...
What the bill as passed meant was that: 1) aged poor pensioned by states would be given an equal pension by the Federal Government, up to $15 a month; 2) unemployment insurance (maximum: $15 for 26 weeks a year) would be established as soon as states passed appropriate laws; 3) workers who reach 65 after 1941 would receive Federal annuities; 4) eventually some 30,000,000 persons would receive such federal benefits; 5) taxes on payrolls and wages to provide these benefits will begin with the collection of about $230,000,000 in 1936 and amount to about...
...Kleano" was first concocted by a Belfast physician, later distributed by a Manchester businessman. Its name has now been changed to "Rumari." Said Author Walpole: "It tastes like dead fish." Four Chicago utilities over which he once ruled joined in restoring a $21,000 per year pension to Samuel Insull, gave him $33,000 for the period he was off the rolls. Meanwhile, into Mr. Insull's empty suite at the Seneca Hotel moved Sexpert Sally Rand, who peered at the black ceilings, sniffed: "That's carrying things a little...