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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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; 6) sharply to limit the size of the old-age reserve account to three times the maximum yearly benefit payments expected in the next five years. The conferees on the bill finally killed the most controversial amendment, a proposal by Texas' Tom Connally that the Government match the States two dollars...
...Bronx, sprawling northern borough of New York City, live a great many Jewish people of all shapes and sizes. Two who were about the same shape and size lived in the same apartment building at No. 250 East 178th Street. If you did not know them well, you might easily have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing...
Quakers began hectoring Schenley several years ago. Although it had no intention of yielding its 50-year-old name, a valuable property, the firm agreed gradually to reduce the size of the Old Quaker's picture, to kill him off completely at the first opportunity. To Friends, however, the Old Quaker still looks pretty big and bibulous. Friend Malcolm Read Lovell, authorized by a Manhattan Quaker meeting to study the problem, suggested a boycott-by others. For an effective boycott of a whiskey by teetotaling Quakers was a bit of a problem. Mr. Lovell's solution: to circularize...
Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...
Smitty sneers at young photographers who talk about angles, shadows and art. He has been in the business for 37 years and he just takes pictures. His judgment of distance is so good that he can pick out an object yards away and estimate its size and distance within a fraction of an inch. On an assignment he shows swimmers how to swim, prizefighters how to fight, baseball players how to run bases. When Dottie Dee (now of Sally Rand's ranch) described how she put on gold paint for her dance, Smitty said she did that wrong...