Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail the "Retire at Birth Plan," officially, "The Perpetual Prosperity Plan," to which you refer in your "Michigan's Main" election story, TIME, Dec. 30. ... Background of the use of this "Plan" in Michigan's campaign is about this: A subscriber to this newspaper, living in Battle Creek, at a dinner-table talk there recalled having read the "Plan," and sketchily detailed it to his friends as he recalled it. He had forgotten the title, but not the general idea. The result was that it was gossiped around and finally bobbed up in the Main campaign, about...
Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, which share a Congressional district in Michigan, last week elected a new Representative to succeed Henry M. Kimball who died last October.* Since Democrats have a House majority of 205 seats it made no national difference whether a Democrat or a Republican was elected. Yet rare indeed was the Congressman who failed to take notice of last week's Michigan returns, and when the Republican nominee was elected many a Republican and many a Democrat quaked miserably. The significance of the Michigan election was that it was the first victory of a candidate east...
...Michigan the tide did not rise very high. Verner Wright Main, a Battle Creek lawyer, won the Republican nomination last month in a five-sided primary because he had strong Townsend support. Dr. Townsend made two speeches in the district favoring Nominee Main's election. Republican Main polled 25,000 votes to his Democratic opponent's 11,000. However, the Michigan district in question has been consistently Republican for the last 36 years. Though a snowstorm on the morning of election day doubtless reduced the size of last week's vote, Townsendism as a vote-getter made...
Last week in Battle Creek a rival to the Townsend Plan was broadcast. Its name: "Retire at Birth Plan." Its terms: to give every newborn child a $20,000 note payable by the U. S. in 20 years. The note would bear 3% interest ($50 monthly) payable to the child's parents. This $600 a year, plus $1,000 a year for a sinking fund, would cost the Government only $1,600 a year per pensioner compared to $2,400 under the Townsend Plan. If a boy and girl married at 20 they would have $40,000 capital...
...lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...