Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his own savings were swept away by Depression and, instead of enjoying the well-earned ease and security which he had expected, he was forced at 60-odd to scrape a living as a real-estate salesman. In these circumstances Dr. Townsend conceived his Plan to pay every citizen over 60 a Government pension of $200 per month for life. Good & Grey. Dr. Townsend appeared on the national scene some two years ago as a gaunt, grey, gentle old man sincerely bent on doing good. Intelligent observers unanimously denounced his Planacea as a monstrous fantasy, but for Founder Townsend...
Evenly "The Man on Foot" went on: "Is it too much to believe that the human intellect is equal to the problem of designing a world State in which neighbors can live without molestation? . . . Man has become willingly or unwillingly a citizen of the world, and the duties of that citizenship cannot be evaded. It is on you, the young and rising generation of the future, that our civilization depends...
Busy Benjamin Franklin crowded into one long life enough activities to do several normally energetic men. As No. 1 citizen and foreign agent of Pennsylvania Colony and later as first U. S. Ambassador to France, he knew the political bigwigs of England and Europe, was highly esteemed by many an 18th Century intellectual. Franklin also found time to sit for an astonishing number of portraits, became in his own right a respectable art patron. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition, billed as "Benjamin Franklin and His Circle," which included, along with some 350 works...
...Fentress County runs one modern paved road-the Alvin C. York Memorial Highway. On the highway at Jamestown, the county seat, stands one modern brick building-the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. Not in the Institute last week was its founder, Fentress County's beefy, red-headed first citizen. He sat in gloomy exile at his farm at Pall Mall, six miles away...
With these views, spoken in an honest, cracker-barrel voice which showed that Alf Landon's efforts to improve his strident, monotonous radio delivery have brought results, hardly a citizen, from President Roosevelt down, could well differ. Nor could they disagree with another remark of Governor Landon's in the course of his interview: "Good intentions are not enough...