Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Munitions committee in 1934-35-Nye, Bone, Clark, Vandenberg, Pope, George, Barbour-implicitly believe that World War I was engineered by and run for the benefit of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the munitions-makers whom they dubbed "merchants of death." And last week, on an unguarded flank of the Roosevelt Administration, whose big guns for six years have boomed denunciations of "princes of privilege," "entrenched greed," "wolves of Wall Street," "money-barons," etc., etc., they found a rich ammunition dump: at the head of the all-important War Resources Board, Edward Stettinius Jr. Morgan-man, head...
...spite of this they think that present U. S. tariffs on manufactured products should be higher (26.6%), lower (10.7%), the same (34.5%). Retailers are slightly more on the high side than manufacturers (for whose benefit tariffs are chiefly supposed to exist) and most strikingly big business is on the low side while small Business is on the high side. Among big manufacturers (over $50,000,000), 7.2% favor higher tariffs with or without qualifications, 32.1% favor lower tariffs with or without qualifications, 25% for no change; small (under $1,000,000) business votes 41.6% for higher tariffs, 9.9% for lower...
...misfortune of modern education, in my opinion, is that this process of mixing up the students of different subjects is not continued in the graduate schools. The embryonic doctor, lawyer, business executive, architect, and clergyman would benefit enormously from each other if they could dine together every evening during their graduate school life. At present this is not possible in most universities, least of all, perhaps, at Harvard. We may hope that time will remedy this unfortunate condition...
...taxes over the next three years by freezing the old-age payroll tax at 1% through 1942; 2) to limit the unemployment insurance payroll tax to the first $3,000 of earnings cutting off about $65,000,000 in taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members to the rolls; 5) to obligate the Government to match States dollar for dollar up to $20 per month for old-age pensions...
...Revenue Act of 1938 Congress put a prohibitive excise tax of 3? a pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built...