Congress Weighs Social Security Reform In Budget Talk
Treasury secretary Morgenthau proposes a limited old age reserve fund and a trustee board to manage social security. He outlines four funding paths from 1 to 3 percent rate increases through 1950s, arguing for actuarial soundness and focused spending. Oswaldo Aranha’s Brazil debt plan and diplomatic signals cap a complex policy week.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
House
Weys and Means
Social Security
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
U. S
Harry Hopkins
Des Moines
Garner
Federal Reserve
Marriner Eccles
White House
Savon Celle Kreeles
Senate
Eccles
Morgenthau
Treasury
Congress
Lewis
Trend and Risks in 1938 Baltic Shipping Insurance
Trend notes higher marine war risk insurance rates through the Baltic due to Adolf Hitler. SPIES reports rising foreign espionage activity in the United States, countered by federal agencies ready to cope at one hundred percent. TREES mentions the National Forest Service planting 140 million trees across 154268 acres in 1938.
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Adolf Hitler
Baltic Sea
Frank Murphy
U. S
National Forest Service
Europe poised for Rome Berlin control and fallout
The piece argues that Europe will be dictated by Rome and Berlin as Nazi and fascist moves advance. It notes treaties with Slovakia Lithuania and Belgium, a Romanian farm and oil concession to Germany, and Rome's growing political economic sway amid a waning Western opposition. It highlights parallels to Napoleon and predicts France capitulation on Mediterranean demands. It also mentions U S neutrality expansion and Japan’s gesture regarding Caroline islands.
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Solini
Europe
London
France
Slovakia
Lithuania
Belgium
Carol
Germany
Romania
Reich
Hitler
Rumania
Russian
Ukraine
Napoleon
Russia
Spain
Italy
Paris
Tunnisia
Suez Canal
French Djibouti
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Rome
Berlin
England
George Washington
U. S
Japan
Caroline Islands
Islands
Britain
Resignation Rumors Shroud Treasury Undersecretary John Hanes
Forecast of John W. Hanes resigning as undersecretary of the treasury due to inability to bridge gaps between business and government. Report notes talk of a release related to Kurt Schuschnigg held by Germany since the Anschluss and mentions various personnel and political shifts.
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John W. Hanes
U.S. Treasury
Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Germany
University of Chicago
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Securities and Exchange Commission
Supreme
William
Douge Hoehe
U. S. Third Party Movement
Philip LaFollette
National
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