Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their treatment under the University plan is actually more generous than it would be under the Social Security Act, it was said, as maids become eligible for pension payments under the University system after working a shorter period than would be necessary under the federal act. The Social Security Act requires that workers earn at least $2000 after January 1, 1936 before they can be eligible for payments, while the University requires three years preliminary service. It would take maids five years to earn enough money to qualify for federal pensions...
...Social Security Act provided for the exemption of educational and other similar institutions. This was in part because the pension sections of the Act were not well adapted to such groups as college faculties, but principally because the application of the unemployment compensation sections of the Act to such institutions would have created a heavy tax on account of individuals not likely to receive benefits. It is believed that various features of the Act may be changed within the next few years, and it is possible that the institutional exemption may be modified...
Conant did say, however, that "only the most unrealistic optimist would believe that the accidental interplay of social and economic forces has resulted in the selection of the right 11 per cent of our youth for college work...
...Each apprentice teacher should be supervised only by such men as have had actual teaching experience in his field or in one closely related to it. A supervisor experienced in the teaching of the social studies can not be expected to understand all the problems of a language teacher...
...Evansville, Ind., Harry Lang of Harry Lang, Inc. (which manufactures lubricants, owns Evansville Home Oil, Inc., Dixie Dance Wax, Inc. and a string of four gas stations) pays State and Federal income taxes, social security, encumbrance, personal property, gasoline, corporation, capital stock, truck wheel, chain-store taxes. This year these taxes will take $30,000, 20% of Harry Lang's gross. Last week Harry Lang announced: "I just wrote the President that I'd be willing to do it the other way around. Let him own the business and let me run it for him for five years...