Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Steven McGroarty, a newcomer of an-other calibre. He is a 72-year-old newspaper columnist from Tujunga, Calif, (publicized as California's poet laureate) whose capacity for troubling the House lies purely in the fact that he is the legislative general for Dr. Townsend and his pension plan...
...correspondent of the London Times always seemed to be a munitions salesman for Vickers, and vice versa. There was also the clergyman-stockholder with the loud, ironic laugh at many of Sir Herbert's statements-not-withstanding the fact that the Church of England's Clergy Pension Institution owns more Vickers shares than the Chairman himself...
...chairmen. Then some young attaché of the Loner machine like Herbert Christenberry, brother of the Senator's Washington secretary, makes a speech promising them all a home, an automobile, a radio, $5,000 in cash, an income of not less than $2,500 a year, old-age pension, a free university education for their children-as soon as Huey is President. The more illiterate the audience, the larger the promises. Thus the strong Long machine grows stronger daily...
Characters are a set of bohemian rapscallions of both sexes who infest a pension in Paris and call themselves the Barbarians. Ready for anything, especially a change of scene or conversation, they flit en masse to the Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving...
...common Congressman is California's white-haired John Steven McGroarty, 72. He is California's poet laureate by act of the Legislature. He sponsors Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's fabulous old age pension plan. And last week he told the Press he had sent a constituent the following letter...