Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Something for Nothing. The moon which causes that lunacy may be the earth's satellite or human evolution, but the moon is powerful. It has created a tide in the affairs of men which this year crested in California under the name of "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday," alias "Ham & Eggs." Under this scheme the State would give everyone aged 50 or more $30 of State scrip every Thursday and retire the scrip with a 2? weekly stamp tax on every warrant issued...
...good eyesight of basically healthy California appeared already to be discovering that the overfull moon which hung above the State was made of green cheese. Dopesters give the "Ham & Eggs" one chance in three of winning. Pathetic appeared the lot of those who have spent their pennies supporting it, but tragic will be the political fate of Sheridan Downey and his managers if, having won nomination through "Ham & Eggs," they are swamped by reaction against...
Sheridan Downey knows all this and since getting nominated has backed away from "Ham & Eggs" as gracefully as possible. The scheme, he says, is a local effort to solve the "senior citizen" problem to which, if he gets to the Senate, he will bend his best talents on a national scale. He will vote for it, he says, "as a Californian," but he has made his peace with Franklin Roosevelt who has condemned "Ham & Eggs" in no uncertain terms...
...Pioneer fumble, recovered by Winthrop fullback Jack Carpenter on Dunster's 18 yard stripe, led the way to Winthrop's single winning touchdown. The next play, a pass from Joe Peden to Ed Hindle, brought the Puritans to the 2. Here Dunster held, but on an exchange of kicks Ham Daughaday recovered a fumbled punt for the touchdown...
...Associated Farmers of California, which fought unionization of farm workers, he has earned the enmity of Labor. He has urged that to obtain local Relief, "Californians" be required to prove five years' residence; for old age pensions, 15 years' residence (instead of five years as in the "Ham & Eggs'' proposal...