Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his message last week Franklin Roosevelt said that he had received several hundred telegrams split up 7-to-1 in favor of his plan. That Congress, which will have to supply Round No. 1 (Relief) and Round No. 3 (PWA), was by no means sympathetic became apparent at once. Opposition wires soon started to flood the capital and the telegraph companies were expecting to be the first beneficiaries of the recovery program...
...Francis E. Townsend, as he arrived in Washington last week to "clean up this contempt business"-i. e., to serve a 30-day sentence for having walked out on a Congressional committee trying to investigate his $200-per-month pension plan, in May 1936-seemed almost eager to get behind bars. He was planning, he said, to work on his autobiography during his incarceration. He scoffed at efforts on the part of Senator William G. McAdoo, who in the past had made no secret of his scorn of Planner Townsend, to get him pardoned...
...week Granville Hicks was busy apologizing to Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. Appointed one of six fellows in U. S. history, he was not hired as an actual instructor of classes. He will write a book, live in Adams House, counsel upperclassmen, organize discussions under the house plan. He said he would willingly sign the Massachusetts teachers' pledge of loyalty to the Constitution. He will also remain a literary editor of the New Masses, soon will have published a Modern Age book called I Like America...
...Norman E. Himes: "Though birth control is now accepted in principle by the majority of the American people . . . our 400 clinics reach only a small proportion of the population. . . . Present reproductive trends point to a possible decline in the intelligence of the American people. . . . America urgently needs a biological plan...
...month The Beacon had as advisers such leading Chicago lights as Professor Paul Howard Douglas. University of Chicago economist, and Charles P. Schwartz. of the Chicago Plan Commission. Others, like Edwin L. Kuh Jr., a director of Chicago's Board of Trade, and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago...