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...Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
...what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...
...Another witness-of-the-week was Dr. Francis Everett ("Plan") Townsend. who watched grimly from the gallery while the House voted down, 302-to-97, his bill to pay all 60-year-oldsters Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt...
...soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years: "You are all damned lucky to get Admiral Leahy...
Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18,751,000 to start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave...