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...swept away by Depression and, instead of enjoying the well-earned ease and security which he had expected, he was forced at 60-odd to scrape a living as a real-estate salesman. In these circumstances Dr. Townsend conceived his Plan to pay every citizen over 60 a Government pension of $200 per month for life. Good & Grey. Dr. Townsend appeared on the national scene some two years ago as a gaunt, grey, gentle old man sincerely bent on doing good. Intelligent observers unanimously denounced his Planacea as a monstrous fantasy, but for Founder Townsend they had only pitying sympathy...
...Support for all pension and bonus schemes. The League favors both the Townsend Plan and the bonus for future veterans...
Because 12-year-old Cinemactor FrecU die Bartholomew earns some $1,250 a week in Hollywood, the Canadian Government announced it would withdraw his $180 annual pension, given him as a dependent of Father Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew, who lost...
This purpose will be accomplished through (1) exploitation of patriotism, (2) instigation of foreign wars, (3) publication of stolen letters and telegrams, (4) manufacture of misleading propaganda, (5) political crusades against persons disagreeing with its aims and methods, (6) support for all pension and bonus schemes, and (7) the extermination of the red menace in colleges, prep schools, and kindergartens...
This was high praise indeed. The loom in which Joseph Marie Jacquard made practical the ideas of several 18th Century inventors was declared public property in France in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with royalties, a pension, a statue. In making fabrics with woven-in designs, it is required that every time a thread of weft is passed across the warp, certain needles be lifted from the row, corresponding to the cross-section of the design at that point. Jacquard solved this with a series of perforated cards permitting some needles to pass through the holes and stopping others. Jacquard...