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...years before Ford and General Motors did. He worked out a retirement plan for Kodak in 1928, an unemployment benefit plan in 1930, which included 13 other Rochester companies, became famous as the Rochester Unemployment Benefit Plan. It called for payment of 60% of salary to unemployed workers for thirteen weeks. In 1942 he helped organize the Committee for Economic Development, an influential organization of businessmen and educators devoted to maintaining a healthy economy...
...Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage. "Thirteen years later," said the young Laborite, "one of the children went out into the world . . . and, indeed, is today a Member of this House." At this dramatic point, as his fellow parliamentarians pricked up their ears, Ron Ledger added: "But I have not the slightest idea where my brother...
...Thirteen hundred spirited reunioners descended on the College by 11 p.m. last night to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their graduation by the traditional five days of revelry, touring, and symposia. With 200 classmates and family members due to arrive today, the silver anniversary of the Class of 1930 promises to be the most instructive, exciting, and entertaining reunion in the academic--or party-giving world...
...that their own liberties were threatened. In the sugar-growing coastal province -of Natal, where the British .outnumber the Boers by better than three to one, ther'e was talk of secession. But the opposition that counted most arose where it was least expected: among the Boers themselves. Thirteen Nationalist professors and senior lecturers at the Afrikaans University of Pretoria condemned the Senate-packing bill on the grounds that it would violate the principles of the constitution, destroy the rights of minorities, change the political structure of South Africa without popular consent, possibly destroy the Union...
...these studies and others, have almost completely absorbed Wolfson's energies; his private life has assumed something of that peripheral unimportance a dedicated man allows to things beyond his primary interests. Outside of Widener and his study, his interests are few. As a bachelor he set a record of thirteen years residence in the Divinity Hall dormitories. Only since last December when he moved into Professor Selekman's house on Francis Avenue, has he lived in a private house. In his Cambridge years he has resorted chiefly to movies as a diversion. He goes to Westerns and whodunits indifferently...