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...computed that if a maid were to start work at the age of twenty-five and continue until the retirement age, she would receive a pension of $14 a month or $168 a year. However, University officials agreed that relatively few maids start to work for Harvard at the age of twenty-five and that an employee receiving the same salary as the hypothetical maid in question would after forty years under the federal plan receive $300 a year or 75 per cent of his salary...
...analysis of criticisms levelled at the University Pension plan and the explanation given by its authors makes clear both the good intentions of the University and the inadequacy of its pension system. Despite the fact that the administration contributes 126% as much as the employees, a maid who pays premiums for twenty years may at the end of that time receive only four dollars a month. Such a small return is merely a caricature of the security which a pension system is supposed to provide. It returns to the recipient just enough money to supply carfare to the relief bureau...
...Foodstuffs will be sold at 23½% discount. Saki will be free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken away each day. In the event of Foreigners wishing to employ Japanese Maid Servants, they are requested to make application to the Garrison Commander at the Japanese Club as soon as possible as there are a limited number of Nei-sans (House Girls...
...morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit-of-spring technique...
...DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE-Josephine Lawrence-Little, Brown ($2.50). The story of three female martyr complexes-a possessive mother, an old-maid office worker, a good wife-who reap the ingratitude their selfish self-sacrifice deserves; by the author of If I Have Four Apples...