Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political failure of Social Security is that after more than three years of the Act designed to eliminate the insecurity of the aged, insecure oldsters are still making and breaking politicians, still rank as a prime U. S. political problem. By & large another provision of the Act, its program of unemployment insurance, has functioned to the satisfaction of participants who have drawn out $400,000,000 in unemployment benefits since the program started operation. But for old folks, Social Security, which will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942, is still...
...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...
Swindle? One headache which both Franklin Roosevelt and Chairman Altmeyer sought to save old Bob Doughton was that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
...young business of radio, the oldest continuous network commercial program is the Cities Service Concert (age 12), selling motor oil and gasoline. Last week Cities Service signed up for its 13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank...
Most exciting season in Frank Black's career was 1936-37. With the Carnation Milk program to direct in Chicago Monday nights and the Magic Key in Manhattan Sundays, he commuted by air between the two cities for 58 weeks. To give air travel its due, he never missed an engagement. But in those 58 weeks, he "ran the entire gamut of airplane adventure except for being killed." He was gashed and kayoed when bumpy air over the troublesome Nittany Mountains conked him against an overhead baggage rack. He once watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when...