Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Administration, leaders tonight gave the "quick action" signal to a program to amend and liberalize the Social Security Act early in the forthcoming session of Congress to combat the rapid growth of more sweeping old-age pension schemes. Chairman Robert Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his group will begin a thorough study of "liberalization" proposals as soon as Congress convenes and that such legislation would take precedence over the administration's tax program...
...Last month, Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board threatened to cut off Federal contributions to Ohio's 112,000 aged pensioners unless Governor Martin Luther Davey ceased playing politics with the pension rolls. The Governor dared him to. Last week after a hot political word war. Chairman Altmeyer took the dare, cut off $2,576,000 of October payments, sternly warned that Governor Davey must clean up and improve his State's social security administration before November...
...reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting the old age pension limit from 65 to 150 years; to abolish all relief projects "so the men can go back to work...
Professional jai-alai players, whose stock in trade are skill, strength and stamina, usually learn the game at the age of 6, retire at 35 with a life pension. They live a dormitory life the year round, have a physical examination before each performance, never have dinner until midnight, rarely associate with other than their fellow jai-alaiers. Topnotchers like Piston earn about $2,000 a month, the average player earns about $250. Latins all, they belong to the Spanish Association (controlling jai-alai body), pay 5% of their earnings toward pensions for their old age, which many of them...
...Italian Treasury was ordered by Benito Mussolini last week to start paying residents of Italy who fought in the Imperial Austrian Army a pension-just as if they had fought for instead of against Italy in the World...