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Largest classes of workers excluded from the pension provisions of the Social Security Act are farmers and domestic servants. Included in the Act as originally written, they were stricken out by the Senate after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's protest that it would be virtually impossible to collect taxes from them and their employers. Last week in Washington it was made known that the Social Security Board was preparing to propose to Congress the creation of a voluntary Government insurance system for these 16,000,000 pensionless citizens. To be administered by the Board, it would accept premiums...
Rosemary discipline is strict. One girl was expelled for smuggling in and eating a five-pound box of chocolates. Another ate a single grape after hours and wrote a conscience-stricken note to Miss Ruutz-Rees, thereby losing permission to attend her Rosemary Feast that year...
...boyish informality in fraternizing with and calling upon members of the toiling masses unexpectedly and at random. The ever-young Prince of Wales visibly lacked manly interest in actual proposals and specific complaints drafted by leaders of the masses-such as shop councils and aldermanic bodies of depression-stricken towns. These hoped last week that the now 42-year-old King would give them repeated and serious audience on his tour and they were disappointed, for Edward VIII continued to play the light role of Der King Charming-as His Majesty was dubbed by newsorgans in Vienna...
...sizzled out without setting fire. Downstairs the tall, sleek president of I. T. & T., Lieut.-Colonel Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid mothers decided that, even though Colonel Behn's building seemed to be a target for White bombs, it also seemed able to take this strafing better than any other Madrid building, and in they swarmed with their children. The Spanish moppets surprised correspondents by not blubbering or bawling...
Forty-five Freshmen were stricken just before Thanksgiving with a mysterious nausea followed by fever lasting 24 hours. Tuesday morning and all day Wednesday men reported to the Hygiene Office with symptoms so nearly identical that officials soon gave up the Yale game explanation, which they had at first adopted, and started an investigation of the food served at the Union on Monday...