Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overhaul the present stopgap old-age assistance program, which was supposed to take care of uninsured oldsters by giving them pensions up to $30 a month, financed by matching State and Federal grants. In practice the 1,783,171 pensioners under this program are getting an average of $19, and in the South pensions have ranged down to $6. The Roosevelt-Altmeyer proposal: abandon the policy of matching grants, subsidize States according to their economic need...
...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, California's Jerry Voorhis and Harry Sheppard, turned up to read the skeptical Chairman Doughton prepared statements on the wonders of the General Welfare Act. The federation's nominal president, the Rev. Mr. Thomas E. Boorde, a member of the Home Mission Board...
...enough for Germany-Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter (National Observer) and Dr. Goebbels' Angriff (Attack). In such matters Dr. Goebbels is a man of his word. Since January 1933, more than 1,000 non-Nazi German newspapers have been closed or failed under Nazi pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns. Last week another batch of twelve papers went over the dam with an extra loud splash. Among them...
...Cincinnati's subway is ever to be used, it must build a loop through the Basin from its present downtown terminus. This would cost another $6,000,000, and the whole project would be handed to the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized...
...what might be interpreted as a subtle character change in the No. 1 U. S. private banking firm. The typical Morgan man has always been one who went to a good preparatory school, graduated from an Eastern university, had influential friends and a high social rating. Of the present twelve partners, ten are university graduates, all are listed in the Social Register. The three new partners are all public-school men; only one went to college; none is in the Social Register; none got his start through influence...