Brief Synopsis of Social Security Act
The collector of internal revenue issues details on Title VIII requirements for employers with one or more workers to file monthly Form SS-1 returns. First return covers January 1937, due February 1–28, 1937, with subsequent months similarly due. Tax rate is 1 percent of total payroll and 1 percent of each employee's wages. Wages include salaries, fees, bonuses, commissions, and board or lodging. Delinquent returns require Form C-50-A with each SS-1, with June's return due by July 31, 1937.
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Collector of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Dallas
Texas
Treasury chief hunts for 50 old ten thousand dollar bills
Washington. Treasurer William A Julian reveals that about 50 old ten thousand dollar bills with his autograph remain missing after the switch to smaller currency. The Treasury recalled the large notes, worth roughly a half million dollars, but cannot locate these last pieces. Julian notes he is among little-known officials and jokes that Morgenthau is often thought to be the treasurer.
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Washington
William A. Julian
Julian
United States
Andrew Mellon
Treasury
Morgenthau
Elastic Key Ring Trick for Motion Demonstration
A simple physics demonstration uses a short elastic attached to a small weight such as a key. Drag the key slowly across a desk, then rapidly, then along a circular arc about a foot in diameter. At higher speeds the weight tumbles outward, illustrating centripetal motion and inertia. Repeat with different speeds and circle widths to observe changes in the motion.
Understanding Inertia in Curved Road Driving
The text explains inertia as the tendency of moving bodies to stay moving. In a car, this causes a force toward the outer edge of a curve. At low speeds there is more time to steer. at high speeds the car tends to go straight and leave the road.
Old-Fashioned Social Security in South ern Michigan
A man recalls farm life, pork barrels, and the land’s security as he laments selling the farm and his sons moving to towns. He contrasts past self-sufficiency with urban costs and rent while emphasizing the dignity of self-reliance and the loss of peace from mechanized living.
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Calhoun
Returning to Roots and Hard Times in a Country Home
In a front room a family reflects on simple possessions and self reliance as a mother sums up Social Security by noting they have enough with preserves, potatoes, apples, and meat. The father reassures with gentle resolve that what they own is theirs.
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Mr. Calhoun
Around the House: Quick kitchen and home tips
A compilation of practical household shortcuts and recipes. Tips include Browning Biscuits with milk brushed tops, cooking cabbage until just tender, neutralizing paint odor with hay and onions, easing swollen drawers with black lead, making meat pinwheels from leftover dough and filling, storing Brown Sugar airtight to prevent lumps, heating the oven by briefly opening the gas door, and cleaning the piano with suction cleaner and methylated spirit followed by a chamois polish.
Future Wars Vets Disband Until Nation Invaded
Louisville, Ky. Veterans of Future Wars have dissolved but will be quickly mobilized if invasion threats arise in the United States. The detail comes from Lewis J. Gorin Jr., a founder, speaking in Louisville.
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Louisville
United States
Lewis J. Gorin Jr
Veterans of Future Wars dissolves after rapid rise
Gorin, on vacation from Harvard and in Princeton, explains the Veterans of Future Wars Inc. halted suddenly due to finances. The group reached 100000 members in months but failed to collect dues and was officially wound up with 54 cents in New Jersey records after the executive council sponged the organization.
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Princeton University
Gorin
Harvard
Veterans of Future Wars, Inc
New Jersey
Week's hints improve coleslaw and cleaning tips
The appearance and flavor of coleslaw can be improved by adding chopped sweet green or red peppers to the cabbage. An old whisk broom trimmed into a sharp V point makes a good tool to clean corners and crevices of furniture and floor areas. Mildew stains on clothing can be removed by soaking in sour milk or buttermilk for two days, then rinsing in cold water and washing in warm soap and water.
Flavor tweaks for ham and fruit desserts
Cooking sliced ham with pineapple peaches or apricots under brown sugar enhances flavor. Mixing ginger ale with iced tea creates a pleasing drink variation. Using underripe fruits and berries yields better jelly consistency and flavor than overripe produce.
Baking soda cleans white enamelware on damp cloth
A dampened cloth with baking soda proves effective for cleaning white enamelware, offering a simple home solution. The method highlights a convenient technique using common kitchen items to restore shine and remove grime from enamel surfaces.
Texas Senators Vote to Kill Court Bill
Senators Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally joined 53 Democrats and 16 Republicans plus a former laborite in voting to kill the Supreme Court bill by sending it back to committee. They also backed the override of the President’s veto on rural loan rate relief with 69 votes in favor.
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Morris Sheppard
Tom Connally
Texas
Supreme Court
Connally
Sheppard
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