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...letter. He proposed that the Government set him and eight fellow Seventh Day Adventists up as farmers in Alaska. Though Mr. Hopkins replied enthusiastically. Nurse Hoffman soon lost heart. But his small seed had fallen on fertile ground. From New Deal minds, notably that of Assistant FERAdministrator Lawrence Westbrook, there shortly sprang full-blown a scheme for transplanting Depression-broken Northwestern farm families wholesale to fertile Matanuska Valley. At a stroke the Government would wipe out all their pasts of failure and despair, give them everything they needed for a clean new start in life...
Wrote Scripps-Howard's tart, smart Westbrook Pegler: "There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years and up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn...
...concerts definitely scheduled are on Saturday, December 8, at the Dummer Academy in South Byfield, on Saturday, December 15 at the Westbrook Seminary in Portland, Maine, on Thursday, December 20 at the New Bedford Hotel in New Bedford, on Friday, December 21 at the Agawam Hunt Club in Providence, Rhode Island...
...Blue Room at one time or another during the week also trotted Secretary Wallace, Secretary Ickes, Madam Secretary Perkins, Professor George F. Warren, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve (see p. 58), Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank, Acting Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. Drought Relief Administrator Lawrence Westbrook, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis, Donald Richberg, General Johnson (see p.11). If any of them had brought anything so simple as a bag of corn, Franklin Roosevelt would have been pleased...
...Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...