Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Security...
...TIME for Dec. 26 on p. 11 under "Social Security" you state, "instead of upping the present tax rates of 1% on employer and 1% on employe . . . the Council advised calling a halt for 'further study' after they have been upped to 1½% January 1." Is TIME Inc. going to start January 1, 1939 to deduct 1½% from its employes' payroll checks...
Frankfurter appeared personally after two days of hearings in which witnesses assailed his political and social ideologies, cast doubt on his citizenship, questioned his membership in the Civil Liberties Union and his activities in the Tom Mooney band Sacco-Vanzetti cases, and raised the racial issue...
Although it includes no outstanding dramatic triumphs and is possessed of no extraordinary artistic merits, "The Young in Heart" provides good entertainment. This is probably because of its pleasant lack of realism in both plot and presentation. The story, which concerns an engaging family of rogues and social parasites who are reformed to solid citizenship by the love of a Little Old Lady, is one of those amusing fairy-tales which adults like to believe...
...critical analysis discloses flaws in plenty. The action occasionally slows to a tortuous crawl in sequences where long pieces of quasi-philosophy or super-sentimentality are inserted. Also on the debit side is a strained and obvious attempt to give the picture social significance. But these faults are not sufficient to weight down an otherwise light and airy fantasy. Roland Young and Billie Burke, whose reputations characterize the film, fit happily into its mood and spirit; while the names of Janet Gaynor and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. look well on the marquee...