Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. is now spending some $50,000,000 a year buying surpluses and giving them to the poor, which pleases the poor and the farmers but worries the food distributing industry. Last fall Secretary of Agriculture Wallace proposed a bolder "two-price plan" under which surplus goods would be sold at one price to most buyers, at a lower price to the needy. Business reacted so unfavorably that the plan was hastily abandoned. Last week came news of something new under the agricultural sun: a new plan to make farmers, Business and the poor equally happy...
When FSCC's President Jesse Tapp was shelved along with the two-price plan late in January, he was succeeded by a well-groomed young (39) businessman named Milo Randolph Perkins. In 1934 when outspoken Milo Perkins was running his own cotton-bagging business in Houston, he wrote Henry Wallace a hot letter denouncing administrative red tape in the first AAA, wrote an article in the Nation excoriating the shortsightedness of his fellow capitalists. In 1935 Henry Wallace hired Mr. Perkins as Assistant Secretary. He later became Assistant Farm Security Administrator, learned plenty at first hand about the woes...
...full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department; for the former would know more surely where they stood, and the latter might avoid in the future such embarrassments...
Abolition of the compulsory insurance plan, which the union says is forced arbitrarily upon Harvard workers, is another bone of contention between employer and employees. Stefani stated that the labor group prefers U. S. Social Security to Harvard's benefit system...
...cents a month and want their money's worth. For this reason labor representatives have not stopped at a reasonable agreement. Their current demands not only ask for what amounts to a 50 percent wage increase over the 1937 level, but also attacks the University's cherished pension plan and its aversion to a closed shop. True to the history of American labor, the locals are taking a mile. Or trying...