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...simple that he wondered why no one had thought of it before. He would pension off, at $200 per month, everyone who had reached the age of 60. Everyone, that is, who could prove that he or she had lived an upright life. That would discourage crime among the young. The pensioners must promise to work no more at any gainful or productive activity. That would open jobs for at least 8,000,000 young people.* The pensioners must be required to spend their doles within 30 days, in the U. S. That would put nearly...
...support of individual Utopians it has no connection with the Utopian Society, a mystic mixture of Technocracy, Communism and Ku Klux Klannishness which sprouted in Los Angeles and is now burgeoning throughout the West. It does not even have the sympathy of Upton Sinclair, whose EPIC plan would pension all oldsters at a mere $50 per month. Candidate Sinclair has said of it: "It would only take money away from able-bodied young people and give it to a group of old persons. It would impose an exorbitant sales tax which the masses would find impossible...
...charges of misapplication of Guardian's funds, and ten charges of false entry to cover up the misapplication. Question was whether Banker House had acted in good faith when, a scant 18 months after his Washington appointment, he had dipped into his bank's pension fund for money to bolster Guardian stock in a ''distress" market. Prosecution claimed that he had not, that the transaction was illegal, that Banker House had acted to save his own 1,500 shares. After three hours deliberation the jury agreed with the people, found Banker House guilty...
Retiring to the point of anonymity is Morris Joseloff, vice president and director of New England's chain First National Stores, Inc. Only his intimate friends know that he has a private pension list of poor to whom he sends weekly checks, that last year he financed a sandwich and coffee stand for Hartford, Conn. unemployed, that Sir John Lavery's portrait of his wife was exhibited in last year's Royal Academy show...
...other musical philanthropies had already included $200,000 to the Chicago Civic Orchestra's Pension Fund; generous contributions to the MacDowell Colony in Peterboro, N. H.; the gift of Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall to house the Yale School of Music...