Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with old age insurance (toward which U. S. employers and employes pay a premium with every salary check), old age assistance payments are outright gifts to needy U. S. citizens 65 or over. Although each State administers its program independently, the Federal Government matches the State's contribution and adds 5%, for administrative expenses. Some $10,000.000 of Federal money has poured into Oklahoma since the State got its program going in July 1936. When Oklahoma's indigent old reached the impressive total of 68,000 the Social Security Board began to investigate. A random check...
...public hearings before the Board last week blame for the State of Oklahoma's rolls appeared to rest on: 1) political subordinates, 2) Indians, 3) the possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were...
Taken out of its context, a statement such as the following sounds rather optimistic: "Democracies sift the opinions and beliefs of all with the end in view of determining the state program by selecting the one most nearly correct or by correlating the less variant attitudes." Nevertheless, as a survey of the different media of Fascist propaganda Mr. Porter's paper is of considerable merit...
...Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...
Moving to eliminate inadequacies of the Senior Class Commencement Week, the Student Council has accepted a committee's four-point reform program...