Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Aged, meeting in Boston, Harris criticized the present policy of the Administration toward old age benefits. The main question in dispute is whether Old Age and Survivors' Insurance should be exclusively financed on a pay-as-you-go basis or through an accumulation of large reserves...
Harris said that this practice of shifting the burden of old age support to the poor and to state and local governments should be discouraged. While the Administration is now planning increases in the payroll tax rate to accumulate a large reserve fund, he stated, there is some question whether the appropriate financing methods should not be to increase the "very low level" of benefits or to postpone rises in rates...
...Squibiditydibitydibity," squealed Vag, as he tried to repeat his first question, and suddenly the tape announced, "Hi Mary, Hello Josephine, no hot cereal, thank...
...this situation, it is not unnatural that ordinary men should demand of intellectuals some symbol of commitment or loyalty. And it is precisely as symbol that they do demand it in the Act in question. It is an assurance they seek. They are not out to produce loyalty as an effect; for such an effect could not be achieved by any device, let alone this. Nor are they out to eliminate potential traitors, who might even welcome the opportunity to deceive. Loyalty oaths of this type are plainly not utilities; but they are not for that merely irrational...
Later, in answer to a specific question on the purge of certain Communist leaders, Hood speculated that Western agents might have planted some of the evidence that led to Stalin's action. "You don't know how they work," he said...