Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced his first issue with Congress over Relief. In asking for a Relief appropriation far larger than expected ($875,000,000 instead of some $600,000,000), he took pains to remind the Congress that this sum was only to keep WPA going as is until June 30. Let Congress appropriate that, he urged, and apply any alterations it may want to make in Relief procedure, to fiscal 1940. Said he: "The hasty adoption of legislative provisions, to be immediately effective, which radically change the present method . . . would greatly complicate the administration of the program in the coming months...
...sum and substance of Redd's opposition was based upon Frankfurter's religion and on the fact that "it was conceded" Frankfurter was the author of the N. R. A. Both objections were quashed by the senators. Finally Senator Connally asked how many members were in Redd's organization. "I'm the whole works myself," he retorted...
...Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime chairman of the National City Bank, who four years ago started over again at the bottom and is now chairman of Blyth & Co., last week settled (for an unrevealed sum) the Government's tax claim of $1,384,222 against...
...compromise Mergenthaler's President Joseph T. Mackey proposed to put 10% (about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over...
...shovel coal out now, the Council would liberalize benefits all along the line. Instead of waiting until 1942 to begin monthly benefit payments and making lump sum payments to workers who reach 65 before then, it suggested moving the monthly benefits back to 1940, making them bigger, adding annuities for wives over 65, benefits for widows and orphans. This would reduce the burden on Social Security's independent old-age-assistance program,* designed primarily for uninsured oldsters...