Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best AAAlibi was that tobaccomen, who accounted for three of the defeats, needed compulsory quotas least-because as a result of this year's quotas tobacco prices are relatively better than those for any other major crop. Said AAAdministrator Rudolph M. Evans: "They decided the voluntary control program was all that's needed. Maybe they are judging the situation better than we at the Department...
...making lump sum payments to workers who reach 65 before then, it suggested moving the monthly benefits back to 1940, making them bigger, adding annuities for wives over 65, benefits for widows and orphans. This would reduce the burden on Social Security's independent old-age-assistance program,* designed primarily for uninsured oldsters...
Since most radio programs use prepared scripts, radio performers need nothing so much as the ability to read aloud. But programs like General Foods Corp.'s We, the People, in which the audience participates, run into special script troubles: the program's cross section includes people with poor eyesight, some illiterates. Average for We, the People is one guest a week who cannot see well enough to read an ordinary script. Last week the docket included a man who could not see at all- blind Musician Leonard Burford. For Guest Burford the script was typed in Braille...
Perhaps it is possible to divide the objectors to any rearmament program into three classes; the first contains those who would rather see themselves, their families, and their countries martyred for their convictions; the second includes those who believe that armament is only necessary at the last moment, as a last resort, and hence is dangerous in times of peace; the third is a class which declares that the next war will be so horrible that there is no use preparing for it--civilization will be destroyed anyway...
...This program appears to be in the best traditions of the University, and I sincerely hope that it will be taken up by other institutions throughout the country...