Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress, which includes more lawyers than any other professionals, did not choose to follow his gratuitous advice. Into two categories fell the legal-minded Congressmen who propounded opinions...
...Washington one evening last week a gaunt, kindly old man uprose before a small group of people, including 20-odd Congressmen, and began to talk softly but zealously. "The Depression," said he, "was caused by only one thing - failure of the country's purchasing power. The solution is simple. Give all the aged a pension and the task of spending it every month, before they could receive more. Purchasing power will be restored. Business will boom. Prices will go up, of course. But what's the difference? Everyone will have plenty of money. There will be no more...
...nearly five years the Congressmen in the audience had been listening to just such well-meaning, naive schemes for ending Depression overnight, insuring Prosperity forever & ever. But none of them laughed at 67-year-old Dr. Francis Everett Townsend. Some of them even joined the Congressmen's Townsend Club which he organized after his speech. For the good doctor's Old Age Revolving Pensions scheme, better known as the Townsend Plan, had by last week become one of the biggest political facts in the U.S. The early California groundswell of sentiment in its favor had grown...
...been in Washington since mid-December, expects to stay until mid-February when the monster petition being assembled at his headquarters in Long Beach, Calif, should be ready for submission to Congress. A bill embodying the Plan has not yet been drafted. So great is the rivalry among Congressmen for the privilege of introducing such a measure, says Dr. Townsend, that a movement is under way to have it proposed jointly by all favoring Congressmen. Undismayed by the House's new gag rule (see p. 13), California's Representative John Steven McGroarty, who is also his State...
...scheme which would alter the whole economic and social structure of the U. S., no individual citizen has yet felt personally & sufficiently aggrieved to organize an anti-Townsend club. Most thinking citizens have ignored the Plan, or dismissed it as too remote or fantastic to be worth worrying about. Congressmen, who know better, have been struck publicly dumb by the hundreds and thousands of letters, telegrams, petitions pouring into their offices. Even President Roosevelt has so far dared to condemn the Plan only by inference when, on the subject of old age pensions, he told the Conference on Social Security...