Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crackpots. Plans like California's $30 Every Thursday, Indiana's $30 on Monday, and the Townsend Plan, which Franklin Roosevelt dismissed as "unsound," flourished more vigorously than ever in the soil of senile insecurity. Dr. Townsend, still promising up to $200 a month to be raised by a hazy "transactions tax," sat in Washington waiting to be called by the committee. Meantime, his organization's chief rival, the General Welfare Federation of America, got its crack at the committee last week...
...axiom in the insurance business that insurance is not bought but sold. In 1935 Franklin Roosevelt sold Congress and Congress sold the U. S. the Social Security Act, the biggest, most comprehensive, most expensive mass insurance policy ever written. Since then its purchasers, the nation's taxpayers, have had occasion to read their policy carefully and, if they have detected no outright jokers, their reaction has been such that practically every politician in the U. S. from Franklin Roosevelt down has put revision of Social Security at the top of his must list. Last week, as the House Ways...
...expressed belief that this was a violation of the U. S. Constitution, which it is not. Warning France not to believe that U. S. help would be forthcoming in a war, Popolo d'ltalia said: "This is one of the most colossal delusions into which France has ever fallen. Because, if despite the efforts of the totalitarian states to insure a just peace, war should break out, before the U. S. could say 'Oh!' the French frontier would be smashed to bits...
...enter into arrangements for, if not disarmament, at any rate a limitation of armaments." This did not mean that "appeasement" was to be abandoned-on the contrary, Mr. Chamberlain assured the House that "it is steadily succeeding"-but it was about as close as the Prime Minister has ever come to adopting the attitude of "deeds, not words" held by Anthony Eden and many of Chamberlain's Conservative and Opposition critics...
...forthcoming invasions and delivered his address in rather more subdued tones than usual, many correspondents, editorial writers, even statesmen called the speech "mild." Those who took the trouble to wade through the long, formless address, however, discovered that it was actually one of the most sensational and threatening talks ever made by the head of a State. Excerpts...