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Included were no less than 15 pension plans. Strongest was the "California State Retirement Life Payments Act," whose proponents claim over 800,000 signatures, boast that their plan has overshadowed Townsendism in its original stronghold. CSRLP would provide $30 every Thursday for every unemployed qualified voter over 50 who has lived a year in California. The money would be payable in $1 warrants, which would be annually "self liquidating" because whoever has one in his possession any Thursday in the year must affix a special 2? stamp to it. Treasurer of the Petition Campaign Committee sponsoring the plan is freckled...
Governor George Howard Earle, who pictures himself as Pennsylvania's counterpart of Franklin Roosevelt, once hailed the latter's plan to New Dealize the U. S. Supreme Court as "the greatest advance for democracy in our lifetime." Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly...
Miss Thompson, ever a brilliant rationalizer of ideas, says that her plan developed largely from conversations with German Credit Expert Moritz Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating...
...Hire-Purchase Act cracks down on many of the sharp practices employed by British sellers on the installment plan, permits buyers who are unable to complete their payments to take back the goods for cash, less a fair reduction for wear & tear...
...Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair to U. P. & L. stockholders to "pull them out of reorganization on the normal basis of a fair plan and then bump them again with an order under Section nB. . . ." SEC, therefore, would draw up its own plan in hearings beginning August...