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...houses, were three Fisher sisters, 60 Fisher relatives, 90 other guests. In the pillared ballroom. Mother Fisher beamed upon a six-tiered. pink-&-white birthday cake topped with 79 candles. California's white-haired Representative John Steven McGroarty, poet laureate of his State and Congressional marshal of the Townsend Plan, lost his $100 overcoat in the House cloakroom. Cried...
Speaking of Old age Pensions and the Townsend Plan, Mr. Saltonstall was also against any Federal action, but approved of the present Massachusetts law on Old Age assistance, which he believed should be amended and improved wherever necessary...
...Massachusetts law, passed in 1931, provides for "adequate assistance to all deserving citizens of 70 or over who have been residents of the state for twenty years. Unlike the Townsend Plan it stipulates no standard rate of financial aid and there is no tax attached to raise the money...
...interested in the Battle Creek Congressional district. Smart readers of the "Perpetual Prosperity Plan" will recognize it as satire. About the other type of reader it makes little difference. I wrote and published the "Plan" last June as a josh. Perhaps it may be good politics for the anti-Townsend-Planners to treat it as seriously as occasions may advise. . . . R. M. MCCABE Editor
Edward Gerry and Townsend Winmill made five and three of the varsity goals respectively. Defensive cooperation added to the strength of the opposing team...