Social Security Amendment Expands Family Coverage
Congress signed amendments liberalizing old age insurance and recognizing the family unit as the social security basis. Widows and dependent children will receive monthly payments, with the widow's benefit at three fourths of the worker's old age rate and 50 percent for each child. Monthly benefits will be lifetime and based on average wages, not total wages, shifting toward a true insurance system to counter Townsend Plan momentum.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Arthur H. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Altmeyer
Grayson County Adopts Budget With Add-on Agent
Grayson County Commissioners Court approved the 1940 budget in original form with a $600 addition for hiring an extra home demonstration agent. Total approved expenditures across all county departments including debt service amount to $502,936.56. The Sun sells typewriter paper.
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Sherman
Grayson County
Commissioners Court
Sales Tax Opposed by Texas Grocers Convention
Houston reports the Texas Retail Grocers Association convention faced calls against a sales tax in Texas. Congressman Poage of Waco argued such a levy is unfair, unnecessary, and echoes European despot systems. Delegates, over 2,000 attendees, cheered the keynote stance urging taxation of oil gas and sulfur instead. He warned that government power rests with Texans.
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Houston
Texas
Congressman Poage
Waco
Texas Retail Grocers Association
Poage
Massachusetts
Louisiana
Farm Program Here To Stay But Must Be Changed
Jones argues the farm program is essential to national life and tariff balance but must be simplified. He proposes three features soil conservation payments, subsidized distribution through channels, and a loan provision to guard against price collapse. He stresses freedom for farmers in crop choice and notes potential adjustments to protect prices while boosting employment.
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Washington
Dialogue Echoes Family Friction Over Food and Pay
A couple spar over shared household duties and finances. He criticizes meals he recalls from his mother while she contrasts them with his father’s former salary, revealing lingering expectations and unresolved tensions.
Making Poor Land Rich in Texas Farmers Programs 1938
Texas farm program reports show 208,528 acres terraced and 20,000 miles of ridges across sloping land, improving 8 million acres of tillable Texas ground. More farmers joined soil building in 1938, but funds fell short by 2.9 million dollars of the maximum.
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College Station
Texas
AAA
United States
Extension Service
George Slaughter
State Agricultural Conservation Committee
Sterling favors 5c tax levy on crude oil to pay pensions
Former Gov Ross Sterling, ex Humble Oil president, calls for a 5 cent tax on oil production to fund pensions and says he would summon a special legislative session to meet the people's will. He cites legacy of East Texas proration and martial law actions during his administration. A joke follows about renting a horse.
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Sterling
Austin
Ross 5S
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Commission Oil
East Texas
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