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...short years ago, eastern conservatives chortled with glee at the stupidity of a diddering old doctor who proposed to solve the depression and the ills of democracy by taxing the rich to support the poor in their declining years. They prophesied a speedy end for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the Townsend Plan and selected a quiet grave for the party along side of the Greenbackers and Populists. Yet today the movement claims 25,000,000 supporters and has even begun to organize clubs in that stronghold of conservation shrewdness--New England...
...question which remains open is how much the Government can afford to pay all the aged. Intelligent people agree the Townsend Plan is absurd; the Roosevelt Social Security Bill, however, is still open to doubt, whether the provision of the eventual 9.3% pay-roll tax of 1949, and $15 to $20 per month payments, lies above or below the humane and the possible...
Well Leader, A sprinkling of new faces will also be there. In the House will appear Representative Verner Wright Main of Michigan, whose election as an advocate of the Townsend Plan lately stirred politicians (TIME, Dec. 30). The Senate will have a new Farmer-Laborite in the person of Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Minnesota's Governor Olson to succeed the late Senator Schall (see col. 1). But in many ways the most interesting new face in the 74th Congress will be that of Alabama's Representative William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead...
...real disruptions will come in regard to measures that Franklin Roosevelt must set his hand against. Among eminent possibilities: the Townsend Plan; the Frazier-Lemke bill for paying off farm mortgages with $3,000,000 in greenbacks; attempts to alter or repeal the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
Time Marches On with renewed vigor this month. The Townsend Plan, with its hopes and illusions; The trapping of the narcotic smugglers, working through New Orleans from Central America; and the achievements and aspirations of Japan in China, are the topics of the new installment...