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Sirs: Your article (TIME, Aug. 24) on Florida's Pension Senator struck me as an excellent analyzation of the situation here. Doubtlessly, Judge Andrews will dispute the implication that Townsend votes were responsible for his election...
...votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority of 4,500. Since nomination is tantamount to election, he became the first man to win a place in the U. S. Senate in a campaign where he depended mainly on the California doctor's $200-per-month pension plan for oldsters as an issue...
...year salary and a schoolteacher's pension of some $1,200 a year, Postmistress Harrington supports two elderly female cousins. Last week from her West Point desk, over which hangs a photograph of Mr. Farley, she sent in her application for examination. Said she: "I've always loved the Army and wanted to be where the Army was. ... All those on the post are my friends. . . . But I'll have to get another job somehow. I don't know just where...
...show. Rising just before sundown in Cleveland's huge Municipal Stadium, freckle-faced, stubble-chinned William Lemke addressed himself not only to some 70,000 empty seats and 5,000 Townsendites, but to every malcontent in the land. For Townsendites, he plumped "100% for an old-age revolving pension." For Coughlinites he cursed the "money changers," called for $5,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks. And for any who might still cherish the memory of Huey Long, he promised as President to make every man a King...
Last year when the U. S. Supreme Court voided the 1934 Railway Pension Act, which required railroads to pension their aging employes (TIME, May 13, 1935), President Roosevelt had Congress pass a substitute, split into two separate parts, (a retirement act and a companion tax measure), in the hope that each would pass court muster alone and together put railway pensions into effect. Last week, in a test case brought by Alton Railroad Co., Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court declared the two parts "inseparable," outlawed both on the ground that the tax law sought...