more unanswered questions
Posted on | March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
Jean Paul Ludwig, Valet, on ship manifests, immigrated to US 1920 and naturalized Nov 9, 1927.
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Dear Orly,
I have attached files with parts of ship manifests for ‘Conte Verde’-1923 and ‘Leviathan’-1924, where Jean Paul Ludwig traveled with Senator Reed as his Valet on both trips.
Jean Paul Ludwig first immigrated to US in 1920, and completed naturalization on 09 Nov 1927, David A Reed was his witness, file attached.
I can’t find a ship manifest for the ‘Lurline’ for Jean Ludwig’s Jan 13, 1938 arrival in Honolulu, HI, but the age given of 47 yrs fits. In 1938 Ludwig was still working for Sen Reed, and also in 1938 Sen Reed bought the mansion at 104 Dans Highway in New Canaan, CT, after he retired from the senate.
I am still puzzled why Ludwig, who naturalized in 1927, and worked for Sen. Reed from about 1920 until at least 1951, didn’t have the need to get his own SSN until 1951.
David Reed made a lot of ship voyages (which I haven’t finished checking yet) including:
David Reed and family on board ‘Aquitania’ – from Southampton, England -arr NY Sept 17, 1920. I haven’t found a 1920 voyage for Ludwig, but 1920 was the year he immigrated to US, and I think he may have been on the ‘Aquitania’ but somehow not listed.
The ‘Aquitania’ manifest shows David Reed’s address in Pittsburg as 909 Amberson Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, which is the same destination address that Jean Paul Ludwig gave on his ‘Conde Verde’ 1923 voyage.
Paula
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March 6th, 2011 @ 8:43 pm
https://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html
It looks like there was “old-age pensions” that paid better than social security until changes in law.
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1950 Amendments
From 1940 until 1950 virtually no changes were made in the Social Security program. Payment amounts were fixed, and no major legislation was enacted. There was a significant administrative change in 1946, however, when the three-person Social Security Board was abolished and replaced by the Social Security Administration, headed by a single Commissioner.
Because the program was still in its infancy, and because it was financed by low levels of payroll taxation, the absolute value of Social Security’s retirement benefits were very low. In fact, until 1951, the average value of the welfare benefits received under the old-age assistance provisions of the Act were higher than the retirement benefits received under Social Security. And there were more elderly Americans receiving old-age assistance than were receiving Social Security.
Because of these shortcomings in the program, in 1950 major amendments were enacted. These amendments increased benefits for existing beneficiaries for the first time (see The Story of COLAs), and they dramatically increased the value of the program to future beneficiaries. By February 1951 there were more Social Security retirees than welfare pensioners, and by August of that year, the average Social Security retirement benefit exceeded the average old-age assistance grant for the first time.
March 7th, 2011 @ 7:40 pm
Reed hired Ludwig from ‘Aquitania’ crew, or manifest omission.