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...McGroarty Bill called for the Townsend Plan-$200 a month pension for every well-behaved oldster over...
...more than an hour rambled the gentle oldster who, having seen much misery and evil in his lifetime as country doctor and health officer, had conceived a Plan to end it all. His Plan would banish crime "because almost all crime comes from, poverty." It would banish bootleggers because it would entail government licensing of all business. In six months, for only $9,600,000,000, it would bring the real relief and recovery which the U. S. had not obtained by spending "$20,000,000,000 on charity, crime and government alphabetical soup relief" in the past six months...
Pricked up interest as oldster David Lloyd George announced that he means to stump the entire British Isles with an avowedly Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME...
...acclaimed as unique among U. S. judges. Born in Oxford, Ont. and educated only in country grade schools, Kansas' "Grand Old Man" was first appointed to the State's Supreme Court in 1884, re-elected every six years. In 1903 he became Chief Justice. More loyal are Kansans to Oldster Johnston than to any other individual or ideal except Prohibition. Said he last week: "I have hoped that I might be strong enough to serve out my present term, more than two years of which is unexpired, but it is uncertain...
...Hanley, an oldster of Knute Rockne's last team who had been kept out of college by illness in 1931 and 1932, and for a Notre Dame team that has shown flashes of greatness, that play was a satisfactory climax for the season. Earlier in the game, mainly a battle between two titanic lines, a long Notre Dame pass and a short Army pass had given each team a touchdown. Two minutes later the gun made the final score Notre Dame 12, Army...