Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that every farm family has the capacity to earn a satisfactory living on its own farm. But many thousands of tenant farmers-indeed most of them-with some financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them." Social Security. "In many nations where such laws are in effect success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through frequent amendment of the original statute." NRA- Halfway through his speech, President Roosevelt had drawn numerous brief bursts of applause, had stirred his audience to no excitement. Then...
First U. S. wage earner to be registered for a Social Security Act pension at 65 was a 23-year-old Princeton graduate who remarked: "It's a long way off" (TIME, Dec. 14). Last week the first U. S. wage earner to apply for a pension was one Ernest Ackerman, for 33 years a motorman for Cleveland Railway Co., who became 65 on Jan. 2. His wages for Jan. 1, day the pension plan went into effect, were $4.96, of which he paid 5? as the Social Security tax. For his pension, he claimed 32% of his total...
...year for AAA, something under $400,000,000 for CCC, an estimate of $451,000,000 in fiscal 1938 for "General Public Works" (capital expenditures including $130,000,000 for the Army's Rivers & Harbors and Flood Control and other sums for other departments), $836,000 for Social Security...
...significance of these questions vitally concerns every student who is not in college merely as a social gesture. No longer is it possible to stake out a claim west of the Mississippi and sell at a profit in a few years. The world has come to demand more intensive training for the business of improving it, Lincoln Steffens notwithstanding. When the college man comes to realize this situation, he has awakened to the problems which confront him; and insofar as President Conant is able to carry out his precepts at Harvard, this student will be able to estimate his intellectual...
...revamping of the civil service may be camouflage to anchor the present recipients of New Deal patronage. For years no Democrat now in office who gave his all to the campaigns of '32 and '36 would have to worry about bread and butter. Although the suggested department of social welfare consolidates a multitude of agencies, there appears no good reason why Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly...