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...Townsend Plan is not to be confused with other California products. Except for the support of individual Utopians it has no connection with the Utopian Society, a mystic mixture of Technocracy, Communism and Ku Klux Klannishness which sprouted in Los Angeles and is now burgeoning throughout the West. It does not even have the sympathy of Upton Sinclair, whose EPIC plan would pension all oldsters at a mere $50 per month. Candidate Sinclair has said of it: "It would only take money away from able-bodied young people and give it to a group of old persons. It would impose...
...expanse which had so long been the home of the sailors, they went. Behind them in the distance, slipped the little, town of Palos from which they had so lately set their sails. To the front lay the Cape, beckoning them to newer worlds. Beyond still farther fell that mystic headland which sailors have come to revere as do Gata, and then, still farther, farther to the East, lay the still silent rock which kept the entrance to their maritime knowledge. Beyond,--beyond that rock few men had ventured, and those who had, dared not to pass in straight defiance...
Cotting Gift Scholarship: Lewis G. Shepler, 2M, of Mystic, Conn., Univ. of Rochester...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture Wallace pushed his land reclamation program ahead another notch by organizing a party to search for a grass hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted...
...Mystic Roerich's job will be to guide two experts from the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry through Central Asia to the rim of the Gobi Desert. There grow plants hardy enough to survive a summer heat of 100°, a winter cold of -40°, an annual rainfall of less than 16". From these he will help choose grasses and shrubs which can grow in the baking, shifting midlands...