Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short years ago, eastern conservatives chortled with glee at the stupidity of a diddering old doctor who proposed to solve the depression and the ills of democracy by taxing the rich to support the poor in their declining years. They prophesied a speedy end for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the party along side of the Greenbackers and Populists. Yet today the movement claims 25,000,000 supporters and has even begun to organize clubs in that stronghold of conservation shrewdness--New England...
Playing a mediocre Bridgewater Teachers College yesterday afternoon, sloppy playing and poor handling of the ball lost the game for the Jayvees...
...However, the question of the type of aid to be given the farmers is important. I object to the A.A.A. because it has raised prices, reduced consumption, made exports less than they would have been, has taxed the poor man in the city more than the wealthy, has endangered our food supply, and has opened the avenue for future monopolies in which the farmer and the rich processor would be able to gouge the consumer...
...believe that we should now say to the farmer that the chief help which he will get from the Government will be in the shape of security from eviction from his homes and from his farms, reduced interest rates on the mortgages of the poor farmers, and reduced taxation. If the Federal Government were to say to the farmer We will give you these kinds of subsidies. I think that most of the reasonable farmers will feel satisfied, particularly since they have already been given higher prices during the last three years and a billion dollars in processing taxes...
...think that we should be particularly interested in helping the poor farmer more than the rich ones. I believe that we should be interested primarily in the farmer who tills the soil and not in the absentee landlord. I believe that the A.A.A. so far has done a great deal of good and not done a great deal of harm. However, in the long run, I feel that crop restriction is unjust to the consumer and will eventually destroy commercialized farming itself...