Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With old age pensions looming ever larger as a factor in Depression politics, observers were not surprised last week to see a deal consummated in politically sophisticated Massachusetts between one of the major parties and a local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress...
Sage of Age, who knows what Jameson if you don't get there Early, ponders momentarily and drops his vote in the Booth with Harding a Russell; Harvard 14 - Army 13. Wheeeeee who knows Bunty may be wrong...
...Committee sponsored lectures by Falix Frankfurter, and Bernard Do Vote '18; during 1938-1939 it will present Professor Edwin F. Gay and President James Phinney Baxter of Williams College. Last year the program of providing assistance for students in their reading was inaugurated in meetings with Freshmen at the Union...
...passing judgment, two salient facts must be kept in mind. First is the fact that most vote-seeking pension advocates fully realize the hare-brained qualities, the financial impossibilities of their schemes. They have seen the Colorado fiasco. They have heard the grave warnings of most reputable economists. Still they wave the pension banners, keeping strangely silent on the question of paying the bill...
...Vote for the Fatherland!" In Prague, although the sweeping catastrophe was obvious, editors took up the task of putting as bright an aspect on the situation as they could. The optimistic vigor of President Benes remained dauntless. As the Chief Executive, he at once turned on every organ of propaganda and reassurance to persuade Czech refugees from areas in which plebiscites are to be held to return to the homes from which they fled under Nazi threats and "Vote for the Fatherland...