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Last week in Battle Creek a rival to the Townsend Plan was broadcast. Its name: "Retire at Birth Plan." Its terms: to give every newborn child a $20,000 note payable by the U. S. in 20 years. The note would bear 3% interest ($50 monthly) payable to the child's parents. This $600 a year, plus $1,000 a year for a sinking fund, would cost the Government only $1,600 a year per pensioner compared to $2,400 under the Townsend Plan. If a boy and girl married at 20 they would have $40,000 capital...
...Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each day by dousing his head in a bucket of icy water. There he entertains many a visitor, fills them with good wine, converses intelligently...
...small Friedensburg. Pa. Dr. Monroe F. Clouser, 52, was summoned to the telephone by a Reading Eagle reporter, asked if he had ever heard of any "mercy killings" performed by Berks County physicians. On the basis of the ensuing interview United Press and Associated Press broadcast the news that Dr. Clouser admitted having put six sufferers to death by overdoses of opiates. In addition to quoting him in detail as to cases, the dispatches reported Dr. Clouser as saying: "Lots of other doctors do the same thing, but they're afraid to admit...
...Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, the Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper's Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup. At Alameda a crowd of 20,000 clustered about a platform on the flat, sandy spit, paid less attention to the speeches than to the Clipper, which floated, its motors idling, a few yards off the ramp. There was little applause when Postmaster Farley arrived, looking...
...these reasons, Harvard welcomes and desires the broadcast possible geographical representation among its students, and also because it is convinced that the most invigorating conditions will prevail if all parts of the Union are well represented in all its departments...