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...special House investigating committee revealed that commissions amounting to $2,000 per month were being paid to organizers of the (1 Townsend Plan, 2 National Union for Social Justice, 3 EPIC, 4 American Legion, 5 American Federation of Labor...
...Haven ceremonies had an even wider significance. Having supervised a period of expansion the like of which he could not have dreamed of when he took office a decade and a half ago, James Rowland Angell, father of the New Yale, was beginning the penultimate year of his epic administration...
GIVE Us THIS DAY-Louis Zara-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The rise and decline of a baker, told in vague, groping, pseudo-epic style. Tedious reading, relieved occasionally by an unintentionally comic passage...
...California Democratic voters had a choice of two protests against President Roosevelt's failure to embrace "Production-for-Use" and the Townsend Plan. When the results were counted, 101,403 had chosen Upton Sinclair's EPIC slate; 58,897 had plumped for Representative John S. McGroarty's Townsendite group. That left the President a tremendous majority...
Fortnight ago these epic headlines blared forth from the front page of the London Sunday Referee, lurid weekly beloved by Britain's masses. Billed as a "Sunday Referee Special," the startling story related how "a peasant woman, forty-two years of age, sits in Triboure, a lonely little village on a spur of the Pyrenees. Her foot rocks a cradle in which lie-SIX FULL-SIZED NORMAL BABIES. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEM IN ONE DAY SEVEN MONTHS AGO." The reason this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there...