Word: bigelows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bigelow Plan of Ohio, calling for a $50-a-month pension after the age of 60, went down, 1,527,577 to 460,537. Parimutuel went in in New York, setting Pundit Mark Sullivan a brooding: if you check gambling on the stock exchange, does it come surging back on the race tracks? Socialist Jasper McLevy stayed in as mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Socialist John Henry Stump went out as mayor of Reading, Pa. Boss Edward Crump was elected mayor of Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before...
...busting law as Colorado's. Safe & sound sat Ohio full of colleges and memories of Presidents. But last week, in spite of its stout constitution and sound heredity, Ohio was scared stiff that it might be going crazy. What scared Ohio was not only a bogey called the Bigelow Plan. Worse was the bogeyman himself-Herbert Seely Bigelow...
Shaggy-haired, 69-year-old Bogeyman Bigelow was a Congregational minister who, after taking over a Cincinnati church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of political thought. He has been a Coughlinite, a Townsendite, an Independent on the City Council, onetime Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, Republican candidate for a seat in the General Assembly, an elected Democrat to the Assembly, in 1936 an elected Democrat to Congress. Now he is mostly Bigelowite...
Cost of the plan, by Bigelow figuring: $60,000,000 a year.* Tax provisions in the Plan would fix that, said he. The Plan called for a State income tax equal to one-fourth the Federal levy, a new 2% tax on land valuations of more than $20,000 an acre. So vaguely drawn was this financing feature that critics' estimates of how much could be raised varied by millions. Bigelow himself refused to be drawn into the argument, went frighteningly on about his business...
Politicians asked each other in whispers whether Bigelow could summon up enough referendum votes to make him a prospective candidate for Governor. Said his campaign director, Charles H. Hubbell: "The amendments will be approved at the polls and then the people of Ohio will elect as their Governor the man who conceived them...