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Captain Eddie Gerry stole the scoring honors of the night by pushing in six markers with his mallet, while Skiddy von Stade tallied the other five Crimson points. Townsend Winmill had his hands full keeping the Army sharp-shooters from running up the score and so did not have a chance to enter the scoring ranks himself...
...Francis E. Townsend: We say most seriously that within two months after a majority gives power to [our] program we can completely abolish poverty...
...mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income $8.33 higher than did Dr. Townsend, but he proposed it as the minimum income, not for oldsters alone but for every family...
...Ezekiel proposal, published in book form with the title $2,500 a Year* gave little comfort to Townsendites. As a theorist Dr. Ezekiel can think circles around Dr. Townsend, and he devoted but three pages to a systematic demolition of his rival's ideology. On sounder economic ground he reared his own plans. He proposed no guaranteed bounty for idle pensioners but a better ordered economic society in which even the poorest could earn a living some 60% better than the average U. S. citizen...
Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...