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...Twenty months ago, with the fresh prestige of a landslide of popular approval, Franklin Roosevelt gave the mightiest display of Presidential power in recent years. At one stroke he forced Congress to cut veterans' pensions by $300,000,000, to cut the pay of all Government employes 15%. But Congress would not remain permanently cowed. When it met again last spring it restored over Presidential veto not only a good part of the pension cuts, but one-third of the employes' pay cut as of Feb. 15, 1934, and another third as of July 1. The President was empowered...
...pension laws and unemployment "insurance." with the Federal share of the latter's cost possibly financed by a tax on payrolls. (For news of old-age pensions among the States...
...Finney last week came $23 from the sovereign State of Iowa. It was an old-age pension check? the first he had ever received, the first Iowa had ever paid. It marked the start of Iowa's new old-age pension system which will distribute up to $25 per month to indigent persons over 65. The money is raised by a $2-a-year head tax on all lowans over...
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.* In six States pensions are optional with each county, which pays at least part of the cost. In the other 22, pension laws are mandatory and the aged, over 65 or 70. get from a maximum of $390 a year in New Hampshire to a minimum of $150 a year in North Dakota, provided they can prove their need...
...years ago only Montana had an old-age pension law. Only four States had such laws prior to 1929. The New Deal and Depression gave the first real impetus to the movement; ten States and the Territory of Hawaii passed such laws in 1933. This winter President Roosevelt will move in Congress to nationalize the old-age pension idea, spread it over...