States expanding old age pension laws in two years
A survey by Dr. Marietta Stevenson shows 11 states enacted old age pension laws in 1933 34, bringing total to 29. Financed mainly by state and local funds, several states now offer state aid or full funding, with ages varying from 65 to 70 and pensions from 1 to 150 dollars yearly.
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Chicago
Marietta Stevenson
American Public Welfare Association
Stevenson
Wisconsin
Congress
North Dakota
Massachusetts
Arkansas
Pennsylvania
Virginia
California
Michigan
Army Reports Record Health Year for U S Forces
Surgeon General Patterson announced the healthiest year in U S Army history with the fewest sick reports and the lowest social disease rate. Athletic injuries led sick reports, 577 deaths totaled 288 from disease and 286 from injuries, auto crashes caused 80 deaths, and 157 airplane crashes saw only 11 pilots with physical defects.
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Washington
United States Army
Robert A. Patterson
Patterson
Lin
China
G. I. Jones
Air Corps Medical Division
Roosevelt Plans Three Changes In Unemployment Relief Policy
The Roosevelt administration outlined three major shifts in relief policy. By February 1 the federal emergency relief administration aims to return all unemployables and their dependents to state care. Hopkins said unemployables and relatives total about 4 million in the nation. The plan also pursues work aid instead of direct cash grants where possible, with relief handled by states and local communities.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Washington Post
Hopkins
White House
Hunger before meals and appetite after fasts, Harvard study
Harvard researchers led by Dr. Robert N. Sanford report that hunger can peak just before regular meals and may lessen after extended fasting. Studies involving over 300 students from Harvard Radcliffe and Simmons show four key findings about appetite and timing. A German Bible printed in 1793 sits in the Lenoir-Rhyne College library at Hickory, North Carolina.
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Cambridge
Mass
Robert N. Sanford
Harvard Psychological Laboratories
Harvard
Radcliffe
Simmons College
Sanford
Nuremberg
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Hickory
N. C
Texas babies may get foot fingerprinting
Senator J W E Beck proposes compulsory finger and footprint printing at birth to create a state identification system. Bills will be introduced next month. a state bureau would store records with voluntary printing encouraged. The plan aims to curb duplicate names and fictitious enrollments in school aid distributions and extend to transfers and new arrivals in Texas schools.
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Texas
Beck
1934 Farm Income Reaches Highest Total in 4 Years
The Agriculture Department reports 1934 farm output 32 percent below the ten year average due to drought and low yields. Despite reduced production, prices for major crops rose, with total crop value at 4.78 billion dollars and including AAA payments 5.33 billion. Details list corn, wheat, oats, sorghums, cotton, tobacco and potatoes with year over year and historical comparisons.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Dreuth
Farm Administration
AAA
Rarely Sick and Living Dangerously
Dr Logan Clendening cites Nietzsche to argue that the healthiest rule is to live life to the full. He notes that those who are rarely sick embrace a bold, full-spectrum approach to living, aligning medical insight with a layman’s observation.
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Logan Clendening
Frederick Nietzsche
Health and vigor outweigh perfect health in life advice
The text argues fast living is common among movers who often die from neglecting rest. It questions iron constitutions and suggests poise, grace, speaking voice, and humor as more important than health. It ends noting sugar production in the Philippine Islands for 1934-35 reached 1,422,000 tons, about 10 percent below the prior season.
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Clendening
Philippine Islands
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