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...THOSE FELLOWS LIPPMANN AND SULLIVAN? THE PLAIN PEOPLE NEVER HEARD OF THEM [TIME, Jan. 14]. ... ALL WE DO IS ASK THE OLD FOLKS TO CONSUME THE $20,000,000,000 ANNUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE PRODUCE AND WHAT WE CONSUME SO THAT WE CAN HAVE BALANCED PROSPERITY. ... I THANK TIME FOR FAIR AND IMPARTIAL REPORTING BUT WISH YOU WOULDN'T PLAY UP THOSE HEAVYWEIGHT PROFOUND MINDS WHO CONFUSE THE PEOPLE BY THEIR ABSTRUSE THOUGHTS. ASK JOHN DOE FOR HIS VIEWS...
...with kinky-haired Emperor Haile Selassie I of Abyssinia, the last independent native monarchy in Africa. Last week Negroes were pained and shocked by the callous indifference of most whites to Abyssinia's present life-&-death crisis. Mourned Baltimore's Afro-American, "Even enlightened Americans like Walter Lippmann approve the attempt of Italy to steal Abyssinia's lands, on the theory that it is better to pacify Mussolini in Africa than to have him stirring up trouble in Europe...
...specific and simple character of the Townsend plan is what makes it appeal to so many people. One doubts of course whether the number of supporters is as high as the good Doctor places it, but you may rest assured it's high. Walter Lippmann, who is back in the fold again, by the way, spiked it beautifully in a couple of articles, but the people who support that sort of thing don't read articles; they read dollar signs...
Wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune: "This sum [for pensions] has to be raised by a general sales tax. Retail sales this year have been about $30,000,000,000. So the Townsend Plan would have meant that for every dollar anyone spent in a store this year he would have had to pay an additional 70? tax. . . . Anyone can figure out for himself the minimum that the Townsend Plan would cost him; he has only to subtract about two-fifths from his expenditures...
...Washington, Dr. Townsend disposed of Pundit Lippmann's argument with ease. "A very careless job of rationalizing," said he. "My plan is too simple to be comprehended mann's." by great minds like Mr. Lipp