Word: townsends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in the Battle Creek Congressional district. Smart readers of the "Perpetual Prosperity Plan" will recognize it as satire. About the other type of reader it makes little difference. I wrote and published the "Plan" last June as a josh. Perhaps it may be good politics for the anti-Townsend-Planners to treat it as seriously as occasions may advise. . . . R. M. MCCABE Editor
...numbers of their supporters. On the other hand, if they continue their present policy of remaining aloof from partisan issues, it is difficult to sec how the move can be checked. By organizing the electorate in the districts, by focussing attention on the attitude of the representative towards the Townsend Plan, they can exert a measure of power whose weight was vividly demonstrated by the Anti-Saloon League...
Questioned concerning his views of the Townsend Plan the governor replied flatly. "It's crazy. It's a gold brick. I think it will die out. It's too foolish to live. There are approximately ten million people eligible. At the late of $200 a month per person it would about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap...
...Townsend Plan a Racket...
...feared that the results are inconclusive because of the difficulty of replaying to the question by a simple "yes" or "no." Two persons each in favor of old-age insurance but each opposed to any plan approaching that of Mr. Townsend would have been in a position to mark their ballot either...