Word: supporting
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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...
...date it has refused to organize as a third party. Taking over the methods of the Anti-Saioon League, the clubs operate as an organized pressure group. Refusing to nominate candidates of its own, the organization dickers with the representatives of the two major parties and pledges its support to whoever will grantee to vote for the Townsend Plan when and if it comes up in Congress. It is this factor of non-partisanship which constitutes the strength of the movement as a political force. The Representative is definitely on the proverbial spot. If he refuses to play in with...
...side can be stated somewhat as follows: Thousands of old people in the country are too poor to support themselves in any degree of decency, and are likewise too old to carry a paying job. Therefore the Government should use all its great resources in making the last years of these aged as comfortable as possible...
...year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill as the man whom Mr. Olson had picked to be Governor after him? Next autumn they could politely change places on the ticket and support each other for office...
...means war!" he cried. "The German press does not leave us in ignorance of that! . . . Remember Hitler's words in Mein Karnpf. The driving of a wedge between Britain and France, the isolation of France-that is to be the German signal for war! Laval, by his lukewarm support of the League, would make Der Führer's fondest dream come true. . . . We have to choose between Italy which is in rupture with the League Covenant and Britain, the guardian of that Covenant. In opposition to Mussolini's well-known saying that...