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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...
...defiance as a potential threat to overthrow the Cárdenas regime. Mexico's troubles over the oil expropriations and the resulting business collapse made this threat a likely possibility. So the President two months ago made an attempt to get General Cedillo away from his stronghold. He ordered the General to take over command of the military zone in Michoacán, Cárdenas' home state. General Cedillo, pleading illness, asked for a 45-day respite. Last week, his leave expired, the old General sent in his resignation from the army, announced that he would stay...
...Mexico City remains one Rightist stronghold defiantly independent of the education ministry-the National University. It is the oldest university in North America. Its students, traditionally conservative, struck again and again until in 1933 they won complete autonomy from the Government, plus a Government endowment of 10,000,000 pesos. The Government regrets every penny of it. When three years ago the university complained its income was inadequate, President Lazaro Cardenas tartly advised it to stop being an enemy of the State...
...Roman invasion (First Century). Last fortnight it was reported from London that the Maiden Castle diggers had uncovered a haphazard burial area containing about 30 skeletons. Some of the skulls and bones were nicked as if by weapons. Apparently the Belgies had made an ill-advised sortie from the stronghold to meet oncoming Romans, who slaughtered them. Aside from the marks of battle, however, the skeletons were well preserved, were expected to shed light on the physical characteristics of the little-known Belgies...
...seven showed modernistic tendencies. Compared with programs of ten years ago the past season in Manhattan, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago showed an appreciable decline in the number of modernist composers represented. Since 1935 activities of Manhattan's League of Composers, modernism's principal U. S. stronghold, have fallen off sharply...